• BB_C@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Certain low-memory machines may also want it

    This is a part of the misconceptions about it.

    It doesn’t meaningfully help with that unless much harder constraints are applied in development where it would become relevant at run-time. It can be relevant for low-storage machines however. That’s what binary size is primarily about after all. And low-storage and low-memory may go hand in hand at times as device properties.

    I’m not sure who’s recommending it

    See the link in my other comment.

    • TehPers@beehaw.org
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      4 months ago

      To be clear - I’m referring to devices with, say, 128MiB of device storage and memory when I refer to low memory machines (which I’ve developed for before actually). If you’ve got storage in the GB, then there’s no way optimizing for size matters lol.