Willem Robert van Hage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > [..] > So I tried a simple hello world example exactly like the one > I saw somewhere on the GHC pages that compiled to a binary of 6kb > and I was surprised to see that even after stripping the binary > it still takes up 140kb. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 willem users 201453 Sep 29 09:55 hello > -rw-r--r-- 1 willem users 51 Sep 29 09:54 hello.hs > -rw-r--r-- 1 willem users 1468 Sep 29 09:55 hello.o
It shows that source program takes 51 bytes, compiled object program - 1468 bytes. This is not mauch. Probably, the executable hello is 1000 times larger than object one because some piece of library (including binary code for outputting a string) is linked to it. In small user programs the library code is usually the larger part. In large user programs, it will be the smaller part. Regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users