Comparison with Go binary sizes

[todor2810]

On this page:

https://vlang.io/compare#go

One of the listed differences between V and Go is:

Much smaller binaries (a simple web server written in V is 65 KB vs 7 MB in Go)

However when I try to reproduce this I get a 700 KB binary. Steps I made:

• downloaded examples/http_server.v
• ran v -prod http_server.v

System info:

• MacOS Monterey v12.6
• V v0.3.2 28cbaf6

Would it be a good idea to remove the concrete numbers and just leave "Much smaller binaries" so that users won't think they are mislead?

[medvednikov]

I think this is due to a recently updated ssl module (the ssl lib is now embedded).

I'll update the numbers today, thanks.

[todor2810]

Thank you for the clarification :).

[MatejMagat305]

I think this is due to a recently updated ssl module (the ssl lib is now embedded).

I'll update the numbers today, thanks.

@medvednikov Only question: the lib ssl is embeded default? I'm asking therefore in golang I was comfortable with function import work like that what I do not use (from package) it was deleted from compilation and more from main was deleted unused function, I'm not sure that I was clarify enought, therefore example:

package mymodule

func first(){
    ...
}
func second(){
    ...
}
....

when I import:

package main
import mymodule

func main(){
     mymodule.second()
}
func third(){
    ....
}

Here it woud be compile only second, but first and third would not be in binary I thought that is working in vlang too, isn't it?

[medvednikov]

Fixed.

[medvednikov]

@MatejMagat305

the lib ssl is embeded default?

only when importing net or http or vweb modules