From 4c871246dd561423e69eb9faef5946747f44eac8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <m@mitchellh.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:59:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update file sizes in README.md

---
 README.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1e83824ab..c8241684e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -551,8 +551,9 @@ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
 ```
 
 You can verify you have a release version by checking the filesize of the
-built binary (`zig-out/bin/ghostty`). The release version should be less
-than 5 MB on all platforms. The debug version is around 70MB.
+built binary (`zig-out/bin/ghostty`). The release version should be significantly
+smaller than debug builds. On Linux, the release build is around 31MB while the
+debug build is around 145MB.
 
 When using the GTK runtime (`-Dapp-runtime=gtk`) a release build will
 use a [single-instance application](https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tutorials/application.html).