title: Why is my static library so huge?
body: <p>I have a C++ compiled static library of about 15 classes and their member functions and stuff, and compiled, it's almost 14 megabytes. It links to Google's dense hash table library and MPIR, which is like GMP for Windows, but I did that in a plain exe and it was a few kilobytes. Why is it so massive? What can I do to reduce its size? It seems like there's other programs which are far more complicated than mine that are far smaller.</p>
  
  <p>Compiled with Visual C++, command line is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Zi /nologo /W3 /WX- /O2 /Oi /Oy- /GL /D "WIN32" /D "NDEBUG" /D "_CONSOLE"
  /D "_UNICODE" /D "UNICODE" /Gm- /EHsc /GS /Gy /fp:precise /Zc:wchar_t
  /Zc:forScope /Fp"Release\ang.pch" /Fa"Release\" /Fo"Release\"
  /Fd"Release\vc100.pdb" /Gd /analyze- /errorReport:queue
  </code></pre>