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I thought Swift compiles to machine code? Can't it eliminate the unused stdlib code?

Well, I guess not if the statically linked binaries are so large, but this seems like the more major reason for these very large binaries instead of stdlib being monolithic? (Not entirely sure what that means in this context)




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