On 18 August 2010 01:41, Felipe Lessa <felipe.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Christopher Done > <chrisd...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Sadly this is true. I went ahead and tested this to confirm; compiled >> mueval (which uses hint), copied the executable to a virtual machine >> and it required the GHC package repo among other GHC-related >> libraries. >> >> The size is indeed a problem. But how much? How does this compare to Lua et >> al? > > IIRC, the Haskell Platform installer for Windows has around 70 MiB. > So, if you want a simple installer to include in your installer, be > prepared to have another 70 MiB. I said a dozen mebibytes (12 MiB) > because I think the bare minimum needs to have at least this size to > have something useful for an app, but this isn't backed up by > anything.
I mean, not using the Haskell Platform. I think if you're an experienced developer you'd package just the things your project needs, instead of using the whole Haskell Platform. I don't think the Haskell Platform is the bare minimum. > Lua, on the other hand, is embedded in the executable and weights less > than 200 KiB, probably much less than a typical Haskell executable. I > don't know about other interpreters. True, that's pretty small. > $ du -hs /usr/lib/ghc-6.12.3/ > [..] > So using one of the best generic compression algorithms available, the > size of one of the biggest libraries that a program using hint may > need comes down to 4.5 MiB. Probably if someone is careful enough to > include only what really is necessary, the program installer will be > at most 10 MiB and will need at most 50 MiB on disk. I think this is > doable, but a lot more than Lua; hint can't be used on set-top boxes > =). That's pretty good! Encouraging if I write an end-user desktop application and want to embed Haskell as a scripting language. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
