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		iainmerrick 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini CLI Ah, good point. I was just wondering about the fixed overhead of the runtime system -- mainly the garbage collector, I assume.

frollogaston 36 days ago [–]

The Golang runtime is big enough by itself that it makes a real difference from some WASM applications, and people are using Rust instead purely because of that.

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