[jabl]

> All you have to do to verify this is to just pop into the same OS and version e.g. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on each ISA in Docker and run `size` on the contents of `/bin`, `/usr/bin` etc.

(I cheated a bit and used the total size of the binary, as binutils isn't available out of the box in the ubuntu container. But it shouldn't be too different from text+bss+data.)

$ podman run --platform=linux/amd64 ubuntu:latest ls -l /usr/bin | awk '{sum += $5} END {print sum}'

22629493

$ podman run --platform=linux/arm64 ubuntu:latest ls -l /usr/bin | awk '{sum += $5} END {print sum}'

29173962

$ podman run --platform=linux/riscv64 ubuntu:latest ls -l /usr/bin | awk '{sum += $5} END {print sum}'

22677127

One can see that amd64 and riscv64 are actually very close, with in fact a slight edge to amd64. Both are far ahead of arm64 though.

[snvzz]

>(I cheated a bit and used the total size of the binary, as binutils isn't available out of the box in the ubuntu container. But it shouldn't be too different from text+bss+data.)

Please use `size`, it does matter.

It would literally change your conclusion here. RISC-V is denser than amd64; It's not even close.