Very recently I have come back to Delphi after a long pause and written a rather straightforward utility app my client requested to support an older release...

I know these days the size does not matter much, but it struck me as odd that the one-unit application, when compiled, amounted to 1'084'416 b executable. The one and only .pas unit I wrote is some 20.8k large, mostly because of the richness of the gui.

The uses clause is as follows:

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Controls, Forms, strutils,
  Dialogs, ADODB, DB, DBGrids, ExtCtrls, DBCtrls, StdCtrls, Grids, Menus,
  Buttons;

I wonder if there's any way I could reduce the size of the application to 300-400k or less?

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