diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3cbdcc1..7e18851 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,4 +22,11 @@ syntect = "5.0.0"
 tera = "1.19.0"
 thiserror = "1.0.40"
 tokio = "1"
-url = "2.4.0"
\ No newline at end of file
+url = "2.4.0"
+
+[profile.release]
+# settings that are mainly intended to reduce the size of the release binary while keeping the release binary tuned
+# for performance. these alone reduce the binary size by over 50%, which is good enough in my opinion ...
+strip = true
+lto = true
+codegen-units = 1