Out of curiosity, what version of MySQL is used to link with MySQL module?
Compiling myself it fos give me a whopping 3.4mb instead of 1.6 mb, so really... let's just say I don't want to fulfill the bin of crappy stuff.
I want to do some code changes to the sql module yet I really hit a wall on the big compile size (and no... debug is not enabled by the way).