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by alfiedotwtf 67 days ago
How small is a hello world in C on Linux? The last time I checked a few years ago, it was either 9Mb or 13Mb (memory is fuzzy on this one but one of them was right).

Edit: wow I’m way off… it must have been the 90s when I checked this lol
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CyberDildonics 67 days ago
C statically linked hello world binaries have never been 9MB or 13MB, they definitely weren't in the 90s. Also these are rust binaries.

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame

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fluffybucktsnek 67 days ago
Yeah, testing here with GCC 13.3.0 led to 16K. Perhaps, when you made your test, the compiler was statically linking some libs, which would explain the massive increase in size.
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