You are right to some extent. Except in very specific context, shaving bytes is pointless, and a few kilobytes are barely relevant. But in the real world we'r

You are right to some extent. Except in very specific context, shaving bytes is pointless, and a few kilobytes are barely relevant. But in the real world we're often talking about several orders of magnitude differences. I would still accept a Hello World that is around 100Kbytes, but not an order of magnitude more. And I am talking about statically linked app, this is an other subject but I tend to think that dynamically linking is way overused and rarely justified.