https://tsvinc.dev/tags/git/ Recent content in Git on tsvinc Hugo en-us Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tsvinc.dev/posts/five-numbers-18-branches/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://tsvinc.dev/posts/five-numbers-18-branches/ <p><em>Part 20 of <a href="https://tsvinc.dev/series/micronaut-256mb/">the Micronaut native image series</a>. Field notes from running benchmark scenarios across 18 branches — three frameworks, three runtimes, four memory tiers. No narrative arc. Just five things that surprised me.</em></p> <h2 id="1-native-is-not-automatically-small">1. Native is not automatically small</h2> <p>The pitch: GraalVM native images are lean. Sub-100 MB footprint. Container-friendly. Cloud-native.</p> <p>The CRUD workload confirms this. Native RSS across all frameworks ranges from 31 to 86 MB. JVM containers running the same code: 351-643 MB. The marketing copy is accurate — for CRUD.</p>