[bakpakin]

Author here

Yes, on most linux systems its closer to about 375 kB right now with the default build. For some reason it is much smaller on macOS, and can be smaller when built with -Os, and even smaller when built without the assembler, peg, or in-binary documentation. You are right, it used to smaller but grew as I added more features.

[tyingq]

Thanks. Not knocking it, was just curious. It's certainly still small for what's delivered.

Probably smaller than the typical blog post on medium.

[vanderZwan]

Obligatory link to Maciej Cegłowski's The Website Obesity Crisis[0]

> These Apple sites exemplify what I call Chickenshit Minimalism. It's the prevailing design aesthetic of today's web. I wrote an essay about this on Medium[1]. Since this is a fifty minute talk, please indulge me while I read it to you in its entirety:

> "Chickenshit Minimalism: the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft."

I just opened up that one-sentence, image-free blog-post, with uBlock, uMatrix disabled. Without cache it pulled in 790 KiB - with cache it's still 108 KiB.

And it used to be worse:

> I already talked about how bloated Medium articles are. That one-sentence essay is easily over a megabyte. It's not just because of (pointless) javascript. There's also this big image in the page footer[2]. Because my article is so short, it's literally impossible to scroll down to see it, but with developer tools I can kind of make out what it is: some sort of spacesuit people with tablets and mobile phones.

> It's 900 kilobytes in size.

I hate Medium and their ilk with a passion.

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

[1] https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...

[2] https://static.pinboard.in/ob/ob.082.jpg (Cegłowski's archived copy of that once-mandatory 900 KiB footer)

[cat199]

> on most linux systems its closer to about 375 kB right now with the default build. For some reason it is much smaller on macOS, and can be smaller when built with -Os

clang vs gcc? elf vs mach-o? hmm. would be interesting to know.

[bakpakin]

Seems to be elf vs mach-o - clang on linux is more or less the same size, actually larger than gcc. Probably also some linking stuff on macosx vs. linux.