see also, "things that turbo pascal is smaller than" by james hague: https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
On my computer now, it's smaller than:
- License.txt which comes with "TurboPascal (with DOSBox)" (42,044 bytes)
- sqlanywhere.vim, syntax highlighting file for the SQL dialect of SQL Anywhere (41,929 bytes)
- parse.py, the URL parser in Python's urllib (42,057 bytes)
- doc_testing.html the Rust By Example section on writing tests in comments (42,059 bytes)
- pwd.exe (print working directory) in GitHub Desktop (42,296 bytes)
- WindowsExplorer.admx the XML policy file describing the available
settings in Windows Explorer (42,461 bytes) # zsh glob for regular files that are smaller
print -l /usr/bin/*(.L-39731) # Some ~500 results
# Not interpreted or using system libraries
file /usr/bin/*(.L-39731) | egrep -v '(script|dynamically)' # 0 results
It's also less than half the size of Xcode's PNG-compressed Retina application icon (83,056 bytes).
[1] This includes such gems as cat (40,848 bytes), tac (40,808 bytes), and tee (40,968 bytes).
[2] Where even /usr/bin/true weighs in at an astonishing 100,512 bytes, despite its entire text section disassembling to
pushq %rbp
movq %rsp, %rbp
xorl %eax, %eax
popq %rbp
retq