a lot of it is stuff its runtime loads by default, like huge BLAS buffers, the llvm orc and such. I think there have been steps recently to make those optional

a lot of it is stuff its runtime loads by default, like huge BLAS buffers, the llvm orc and such. I think there have been steps recently to make those optional recently. Julia was really optimized for "big iron"-styles of workloads, but that's less than ideal when you are not trying to just do linear algebra all day.