Dynamically Linked Executable Larger than Static

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I have used the tutorials from the following pages:
http://ehuss.com/shared/
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_25.html
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/gcc/create_lib.html

So I create my shared and static libraries in the source directory:

g++ -fPIC -c libtesting.cpp
g++ -shared libtesting.o -o libtesting.so
rm libtesting.o
g++ -c libtesting.cpp
ar rcs libtesting.a libtesting.o

Then I compile an executable with a dynamic link to libtesting.so:
g++ test.cpp /home/user/C++/test/libtesting.so -o dyntest

I also compile an executable with the static library:
g++ test.cpp /home/user/C++/test/libtesting.a -o statictest

Maybe I'm not understanding something, but I thought that using a dynamically linked library was supposed to make the executable smaller. dyntest is 13.4kb and statictest is 9.4kb. There must be something that I don't understand. Would someone like to enlighten me as to why the statically linked executable is larger?

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I was doing something wrong, I don't know what, but now my statically linked file is 9.4kb and the dynamically linked is 9.3kb :).