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		andrepd 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me Dead code elimination means binary size bloat does not follow from dependency bloat. So this point is pretty much invalid for a compiled language like Rust.

hedora 3 months ago [–]

Dead code elimination is exactly the same as the halting problem. It’s approximate (and hopefully conservative!) at best.

kibwen 3 months ago | [–]

No, dead code elimination in a statically-dispatched language is not equivalent to the halting problem.

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