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[โ€“] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I really don't think these are clearly comparable. I would rather see two more similar projects with comparable functionality that are both attempting to optimize for program binary size.

Well if you still insist. Just went to check how big is the GNU coreutils as a single static binary, it is 2.3 MiB in size

check it out: https://pkgs.pkgforge.dev/repo/bincache/x86_64-linux/coreutils/nixpkgs/coreutils/