large binary footprint ?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello HP,

Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 11:26:10 PM, you wrote:

my haskell-fu ends here :)  on win32 platform, hello is about 600k, afair

> hi Bulat, thanks for the speedy reply!

> I tried the following two ways and got the same result:

>   (1) in the shell,
>       strip hello
>   (2) ghc -optl-s -o hello -L../lib hello.hs

>   They both result in a binary size of ~2.5MBytes,
>   which is about 5 times what I expected (500kbytes).

>   Have I had the 'incorrect impression' of 500kbytes ?

> Thanks
> hp



> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

>> Hello HP,
>> 
>> Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 11:00:59 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>> >   The resulting binary code size is 3.9 Mbytes
>> >   I had the impression that it should be of the order
>> >   of 500 Kbytes. How can I reach that number ?
>> 
>> strip executable. you can just add -optl-s to ghc cmdline
>> 
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>> 
>> 


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com