You may enjoy this dated blog post to give you a hint why the executable is 656KB, not to mention the runtime and garbace collection overhead:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;abhinaba&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;how-many-types-are-loaded-for-hello-world.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.com&#x2F;b&#x2F;abhinaba&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;how-many...</a>