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> Is 100 MB is the minimum program size in 2021? Last time, when I was downloading the drivers for my new Brother printer, it was about 250 MB, I still have no
by doubleunplussed 6y ago
> Is 100 MB is the minimum program size in 2021? Last time, when I was downloading the drivers for my new Brother printer, it was about 250 MB, I still have no idea what they did include in the archive.
When I see something that should be tiny being about 250MB, it's usually that they bundled Qt for the GUI. I suppose that's a cost of cross-platform tools. The 10kb executable the author made was using system GUI libraries, a dynamically linked executable on a system with Qt etc already installed would be similar.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoVLC "only" clocks at 38 Mo, and uses Qt. It's also pretty much today's Winamp.
- doubleunplussed 5y agoThey've probably only included the modules they're using, or maybe they're statically linked and so only including the specific code used. Bundling the whole set of shared libraries is what I've seen a lot of though! Often in the context of a Python program using PyQt.