[burntsushi]

> how is that misleading?

I explained how. Take it or leave it.

> If the size can be reduced then why isn't it done when you publish it?

Because it's not a big deal? The only people who complain about this are people debating holy wars on HN, as if the static vs dynamic trade offs haven't been well understood by now.

> Again, it was an example. Show me a similar rust library that can be dynamically linked to like this?

Rust's standard library.