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by Sevan777 1778 days ago
Standalone binary the project publishes is 45MB. https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/releases/download/v0.13....
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I just tried two commands.

apt install bpftrace: needs 1,201 kB

apt remove strace: frees 1,792 kB

Need to look at the bpftrace dependencies

For example, is clang already installed

How large is strace standalone binary

45MB is still huge; its not even statically-linked

The largest programs I use, even when statically-linked against musl are all under 6MB

And I can count on one hand the number of programs I use that are over 1MB