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by userbinator 3192 days ago
Notice that the executable itself contains less than 100 bytes of instructions, but the file is still 736 bytes. Even without optimising the Asm itself (I can see at least 2-3 bytes improvement at a glance), that could probably be reduced even further:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

736B may seem tiny to most people, but if you're working in Asm that's a lot --- there's plenty of interesting things (beyond "call the OS a few times") the demoscene has done with smaller binaries; here's an assortment of 512B ones:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type[]=512b