Only because I didn't bother to strip the binary. The binary you're linking to is statically linked, which includes PCRE2 and Rust's regex engine, among other t

Only because I didn't bother to strip the binary. The binary you're linking to is statically linked, which includes PCRE2 and Rust's regex engine, among other things. The GP's point is that if you look at all of grep's pieces, it comes in at a similar size. Overall, I don't even know what the point of this kind of questioning even is.