#4387: Huge executables with GHC 7
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Reporter: daniel.is.fischer | Owner: igloo
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.0.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.1
Keywords: executable size | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Linux | Blocking:
Architecture: x86 | Failure: Other
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Comment(by josef):
It seems to me that what is really needed is a form of compile time
imports. Some way to indicate that an imported module will only be used at
compile time, for instance to use annotations or to generate code using
Template Haskell.
Jonas Almström Duregård bumped in to the same problem when using Template
Haskell. He needed to import modules for use only at compile time but they
where also linked in when the binary was created. Link to email:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-
users/2010-September/019211.html
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