Comment by surajrmal

If you build the standard library as a shared library it will be 4+MiB. The portion of that which you end up using is variable but there are ways to accomplish large usage without a great deal if code. I can get a 1.5 MiB binary down to 500KiB by dynamically linking the shared library. It's a net fun because I have many such binaries so it saves size in aggregate. It really does come down to what subset you use though.