in reply to disabling unnecessary perl modules

scandeps, fatpacker, pp, perlcc, perlstrip .... 15mb isn't a lot, but you can get there by getting rid of manpages/htmlpages/pod
$ pp -c ipacsum.pl $ du -sh a.exe 7.1M a.exe $ unzip -qd ua a.exe $ du -sh ua 14M ua

Now the way pp/par works its 7.1M file unpacked to 14M in temp directory, but you can get there through other means ( http://cavapackager.com/ ) with same techniques par/pp uses

Is it worth it? meh :)