A small example how to produce somewhat reasonably small MicroW8 carts in rust. A nightly rust compiler is needed for the unstable sqrtf32 intrinsic. Simply compiling with rustc as shown in build.sh results in a 371 byte tunnel.wasm. Using wasm-opt this can be reduced to 260 bytes. When you disassemble this wasm file using wasm2wat you can see these globals and exports: (global (;0;) i32 (i32.const 65536)) (global (;1;) i32 (i32.const 65536)) (export "__data_end" (global 0)) (export "__heap_base" (global 1)) They are meant to be used for heap allocations and stack for any values that are not simple scalars (i32, f32, etc.). Since our code doesn't actually use any of that, the globals are only referenced by the exports and we can remove them using 'uw8 filter-exports' (preferably before running wasm-opt) which removes all exports except those used by the MicroW8 platform. This gives us a 216 byte wasm file. Running this through uw8 pack brings us to the final size of 119 bytes.