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> note: it requires a 100MB download

Is this how big a clang toolchain usually is?

The Clang WASI SDK weights about 100Mb compressed. We optimized things a bit but still have a way to go (we are not yet compressing in the network). I believe we can serve everything in about 30Mb

MB, right? Mb is megabit

I only have to bring this up because network providers still insist on measuring bits

They insist on it because it is the proper way to measure data rates on serial bit streams where out-of-band encoding doesn't divide up on octet boundaries.

They insist on it because big number sell better.

The bits do me no good

May as well count the 8/10 encoding in a CD-ROM as extra bits. Oh excuse me, extra megabytes

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