← Back to context

Comment by sime2009

5 years ago

Not having to build an executable for each target system.

I think it’s neat how this acknowledges the reality that the actual meat of the machine code is identical for every x86_64 target— all that's different is the OS interface. So unlike other "fat binary" schemes where there's a lot of duplication, this one has a single main program and then small shims to provide the Linux ABI on MacOS and Windows.