The cause of this has always been known (within the Rust community), but it is not considered a problem. For most users, the advantages of static linking and us

The cause of this has always been known (within the Rust community), but it is not considered a problem. For most users, the advantages of static linking and using jemalloc significantly outweigh the cost of a 0.5mb constant overhead on binary size. Those users under different circumstances can configure their build using the tactics in this article to make a different trade off more suited to their circumstances.