Well, on one of the Dart threads, bashing its hello world size, this[1] came up: Compile "Hello world" into an executable, and see how many kilobytes it takes

Well, on one of the Dart threads, bashing its hello world size, this[1] came up: Compile "Hello world" into an executable, and see how many kilobytes it takes on most architectures, despite the object file being a few bytes. This thread pretty much responds to that. It is no 17000 lines, nor 17000K, it is just 142 bytes (other comments suggest it is 62). [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098660 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098660