<p>
The linker in the <code>gc</code> toolchain
-creates statically-linked binaries by default. All Go binaries therefore include the Go
+creates statically-linked binaries by default.
+All Go binaries therefore include the Go
run-time, along with the run-time type information necessary to support dynamic
type checks, reflection, and even panic-time stack traces.
</p>
<p>
A simple C "hello, world" program compiled and linked statically using
gcc on Linux is around 750 kB, including an implementation of
-<code>printf</code>. An equivalent Go program using
-<code>fmt.Printf</code> weighs a couple megabytes, but that includes
-more powerful run-time support, and type and debugging information.
+<code>printf</code>.
+An equivalent Go program using
+<code>fmt.Printf</code> weighs a couple of megabytes, but that includes
+more powerful run-time support and type and debugging information.
</p>
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