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minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoBusybox ls has 26 flags. GNU ls has 60.
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agofair, in that case the comparison is even since busybox provides a shell, awk, grep, wget among other 395 utils, uutils it is 115.
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoI really don’t think these are clearly comparable. I would rather see two more similar projects with comparable functionality that are both attempting to optimize for program binary size.
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoWell if you still insist. Just went to check how big is the GNU coreutils as a single static binary, it is 2.3 MiB in size check it out: https://pkgs.pkgforge.dev/repo/bincache/x86_64-linux/coreutils/nixpkgs/coreutils/
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lshas 26 flags. GNUlshas 60.fair, in that case the comparison is even since busybox provides a shell, awk, grep, wget among other 395 utils, uutils it is 115.
I really don’t think these are clearly comparable. I would rather see two more similar projects with comparable functionality that are both attempting to optimize for program binary size.
Well if you still insist. Just went to check how big is the GNU coreutils as a single static binary, it is 2.3 MiB in size
check it out: https://pkgs.pkgforge.dev/repo/bincache/x86_64-linux/coreutils/nixpkgs/coreutils/