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by kibibu 116 days ago
Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes
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Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs
It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!