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Comment by pella

> But the size difference between alpine and debian:-slim (for example) is on the order of < 20mb.

  compressed size(amd64):  17.59MB vs.  45.35MB  ( > 2.5x )
  uncompressed size(amd64):52.00MB vs. 130.00MB  ( > 2.5x )

  $ docker images python:3.12.1*
  REPOSITORY   TAG                    IMAGE ID       CREATED       SIZE
  python       3.12.1-alpine3.19      0108959914c2   2 weeks ago   51.7MB
  python       3.12.1-slim-bookworm   7c5c05471c3a   2 weeks ago   130MB**
parent pella 2 years ago

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