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by comex 4196 days ago
In addition to the "unless you sort 10 elements" factor, as stated in a sibling comment -

LLVM + libclang together are already 46MB of code, and they're libraries designed to be statically linked. Sure, they aren't going to fill your drive, but they will take a comparative while to load from disk (especially as part of another application - doesn't matter much on the command line), and it's that much harder to justify including them in an otherwise small downloaded package.