Why does an Arduino sketch take up so much precious code space? A few lines of code takes up 2k? Also, can I create a MAP file somehow (to answer the above question?)?

Code size

system March 17, 2009, 6:29pm 4

I have no "includes". The code is really only a few lines with an interrupt.

I'm not a developer, just a newbie programmer curious why the code is so big.

Is there some way to "turn off" or not include unnecessary stuff?

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