[PHP-INST] php binary too big

I tried to compile php 4.3 with apache2 and found out that the binary (libphp4.so) was almost 7.5MB. Then figured out that I had compiled-in a few modules(gd,openssl,domxml,bz2,iconv,curl) so I recompiled PHP to make all the modules shared and still the libphp4.so is almost 6.5MB. I dont understand

[PHP-INST] PHP binary too big

I compiled php 4.3 with apache2 and found out that the binary (libphp4.so) was almost 7.5MB. Then figured out that I had compiled in a few modules(gd,openssl,domxml,bz2,iconv,curl) so I recompiled PHP to make all the modules shared and still the libphp4.so is almost 6.5MB. I dont understand why is