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		SilverRed on Sept 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby Packer – Distribute Ruby code as a compiled b... The ruby 3.0 binary is 19MB so I would assume at least that big. I don't think there would be really any downsides to packing it in since the chance of the user having two ruby programs using the same ruby version are close to 0 anyway.

Lio on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

I wonder if this could be combined with something like Sorbet Compiler[1] to help with final size?

Personally I think I’d favour small static builds over linked binaries.

1. https://sorbet.org/blog/2021/07/30/open-sourcing-sorbet-comp...

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