Comment by kibibu 14 hours ago Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes 2 comments kibibu Reply CSm1n 11 hours ago Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs eviks 6 hours ago It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!
CSm1n 11 hours ago Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs eviks 6 hours ago It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!
eviks 6 hours ago It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!
Notepad was just a wrapper around some default win32 controls. Judging alone by exe size is not right, although probably a “statically linked” notepad would still be smaller than emacs
It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!