Well, ask yourself the reverse: what am I gaining by having unnecessarily large binaries? If you ever have an automated process built around your tool, eventua

Well, ask yourself the reverse: what am I gaining by having unnecessarily large binaries? If you ever have an automated process built around your tool, eventually something will run it lots of times. The more it's downloaded, copied, and run, the more the "bigness" affects performance. It's best to choose smaller whenever it doesn't take away features that you need.