A simple "hello world" compiles to 1124877 bytes. How come it's so big? And is UPX the only way of making it smaller?

Kind regards,
Bruce.


C:\hbIDE\projects>upx --best test.exe
                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
                          Copyright (C) 1996 - 2008
UPX 3.03w Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Apr 27th 2008

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
   1124877 ->    542733   48.25%    win32/pe     test.exe

Packed 1 file.

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