Albert, 

The truth may be as you say, but my intuitive sense of the number of 
separate readers, writers, and dependencies leaves me to feel that some 
suitable amount of engineering might produce results more optimal than the 
ones you suggest. I have not done any tests, of course, myself.

A few questions on your response appear below.

parsing, outputting various other formats. Many large parsers, like  
>
those for LaTeX and HTML, are dependencies of the Markdown reader, so  


This observations strikes me as quite peculiar. Would you elaborate the 
reasons for the dependencies?
 

> I seem to remember that, even after removing a significant amount of 
> functionality, I still achieved only a meager 20% reduction in binary 
>

Did your tests include the comprehensive elimination of unneeded library 
dependencies? Doing so correctly might be nontrivial as it requires having 
an accurate graph for dependency resolution.


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