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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
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throwaway2037
· 2026-11-15 Sun 16:49 UTC ·
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> zlib.h in the Mac OS X Lion SDK (80,504 bytes).
What a stupid comparison. zlib.h is probably 99% comments.
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gmueckl
· 2026-11-15 Sun 17:35 UTC ·
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Is it such a stupid comparison? It's an absolutely trivial amount of data now, but back in the 80s, a few files of that size would fill out a floppy disk. It's also a source file - the input to a compiler.