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Reduce the uncompressed Windows x64 release executable from 3,802,624 bytes (3.63 MiB) to 1,302,016 bytes (1.24 MiB), a 65.8% reduction, with all six languages and existing GUI/CLI functionality retained.

Use size optimization, full LTO, one codegen unit, symbol stripping, and abort-on-panic in the release profile. Rebuild the standard library with size optimization in the x64/ARM64 release workflow, include rust-src, and document reproducible commands and measurements. Plain cargo build --release produces a 1.38 MiB x64 EXE. This trades build time and panic unwinding/debug information for size.

Validation:

• All 52 tests pass in both development and release profiles; Clippy and formatting checks pass.
• Smallest x64 EXE passes GUI checks for loading 136 AppContainers, checkbox edits, counters, refresh/cancellation, and close confirmation/cancellation. Firewall exemptions remain unchanged.
• Native selection/sort checks were omitted from an adapted smoke script because the original baseline also fails the existing script's stale header and UIA assumptions; application tests cover selection and sorting.
• ARM64 reached final linking but could not complete locally because ARM64 MSVC tools are unavailable. ARM64 size/runtime behavior remains unverified.

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