Comment by burntsushi

> The mentioned sizes are the executables only, because I think that not taking advantage of dynamic libraries if you can is a downside, though there are arguments going the other way.

I addressed and accounted for this in my comment. All three of GNU grep, ugrep and ripgrep can dynamically link libc and PCRE2.

ripgrep doesn't bundle any compression code or terminal databases. ripgrep does bundle a significant number of Unicode tables.