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		userbinator on Sept 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transmission torrent client ported to C++ uTorrent, a whole torrent client I remember using many years ago, was only ~100k in total.

aeyes on Sept 12, 2021 [–]

uTorrent is on the same page as Transmission before this change, it achieves its small size by not using the STL at all.

userbinator on Sept 13, 2021 | [–]

All sources I've found indicate that uTorrent was written in C++, but perhaps its author was a bit more mindful of unnecessary abstraction and the like.

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