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I'll remind Joel - and MS - that it doesn't have to be tradeoff between a linker and a runtime system. BottomFeeder is built in VisualWorks Smalltalk, which is a VM/Image based runtime system. And yet, I ship a 7 MB single executable for Windows - which is field upgradeable. It not only can be done, it has been done. Perhaps the MS engineers need to look up at the rest of the industry every so often...