On this system, it looks like it should (after stripping the binaries, non-shared build):

-rwxrwxr-x   1 eserte  eserte   1155532 Jul 27 16:13 miniperl*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 eserte  eserte   1237504 Jul 27 16:13 perl*
[download]

miniperl is not supposed to be that mini. It's just perl without DynaLoader compiled in.

(Numbers with RedHat 8.0 and perl 5.9.something)