It's 450 KB (static binary, including templates for this site, gzip compressed) It builds my ~140 page site in 300 ms (wall clock time, on an 11-year-old old laptop) It performs acceptably on a 28-year-old laptop, running NetBSD (Pentium 166 MHz) It's trivial to compile, requiring only a C compiler, GNU Make, sed, and sh
For comparison, ANPD—describing a static site generator as an LP doc that I published in response to Jared's Show HN thread for md2blog, is 126KB. It requires no compiler, because it uses the browser's JS runtime to execute (unlike md2blog, which requires you to download Deno or a binary with Deno embedded to run it).
Note also that the numbers here also differ from the ones Jared had at the time of publication, where he had originally written:
- It's ~270 KB (static binary + templates for this site, gzip compressed)
- It builds my ~140 page site in ~150 ms (wall clock time, on an 11-year-old old laptop)
- It performs acceptably on a 28-year-old laptop, running NetBSD (Pentium 166 MHz)
- It's trivial to compile, requiring only a C compiler, make, and sed