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Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans
Rusty Russell and Matt Evans examine why Unix utilities like ls and cat grew from a few kilobytes to over a hundred kilobytes. They take apart common tools to see where the growth comes from.
Why HN readers recommended it
Used in software bloat debates as a measured look at why binaries got larger.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
- Topic
- software bloat
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2015
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From the original HN conversations
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There was an interesting talk on this at Linux.conf.au a couple of years ago, trying to figure out why modern binaries are so large. [VIDEO] > Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell, Matt Evans > The 'ls' binary on …
pdw on Hacker News · 2014-05
In Pokémon Crystal disassembled source codeA good article a while back looked at common unix utilities, comparing the size of commands like cp from the 1980's to the present. Most of the bloat had to do with features that almost nobody ever uses. That was actually a talk called "Bloat: …
vezzy-fnord on Hacker News · 2015-07
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