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gzip doesn't make it small enough.

3mb is after `xz -z -9e`.

But, if you start with something smaller, you generally get something even smaller.

I tried UPX, but ended up with just `-s -w` (and xz), simply because UPX was taking too long to build the binary in CI.

More importantly though, I was responding to OP's absolute.




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