TIL that generics and/or templates can cause a measurable code bloat at scale. We are talking tens and possibly hundreds of megabytes, depending how many classes you have. I operated under an assumption that even for a big project you'd only loose a meg or two, and storage is measured in terabytes anyway. But even in the world of 100GbE senselessly large binaries cause issues when you have to deploy to thousands of nodes.