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kibibu
29d ago
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Notepad.exe used to be <200kB. Emacs is tens of megabytes
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CSm1n
29d 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
29d ago
It is right by definition. Link emacs to those controls, shed some statically linked weight, and it will also become lighter!
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