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by epage 1608 days ago
> The glow.exe app on Windows is 19M, the launch is fast and I love that it is self contained and portable, but I think that even a pretty markdown viewer could be compiled to a much smaller binary, like easily 10x smaller without doing hardcore demoscene style binary compaction.

I've not dug into it but syntax highlighting for code fences probably is costing some space for the syntax definitions.