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> The total number of lines of code is relevant, sure, but for most practical purposes, compile times and binary sizes are more important.

Perhaps for most practical purposes, but not for security, which the article's author seems more concerned with:

> Out of curiosity I ran toeki a tool for counting lines of code, and found a staggering 3.6 million lines of rust... How could I ever audit all of that code?

Tree-shaking can't help with that.



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