Credit to you for being able to do this, and it’s neat as a code golf kinda project. But I don’t understand the general obsession with small code size. What I really care about is how well it performs - what kind of hardware does it work on? What’s the effect on the processors?

Code size is a signal, but the difference between loading a 1K and 10K file is invisible from an end user’s perspective, so I want to know about all these other factors, which are more visible.