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by kion 400 days ago
LTO only gets you so far, but IMO its more kicking the can down the road.

The analogy I use is cooking a huge dinner, then throwing out everything but the one side dish you wanted. If you want just the side-dish you should be able to cook just the side-dish.

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I see it more as having a sizable array of ingredients in the pantry, and using only what you need or want for a given meal.
Then another group of armchair programmers will bitch you out for using small dependencies

I just don't listen. Things should be easy. Rust is easy. Don't overthink it

Some of that group of armchair programmers remember when npm drama and leftpad.js broke a noticeable portion of the internet.

Sure, don't overthink it. But underthinking it is seriously problematic too.