You linked to something from 2011. Since 7.8 (or perhaps earlier?), it's dynamically linked by default.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Raahul Kumar <raahul.ku...@gmail.com> wrote: > At this current point in time, GHC is packaged in a poor manner, with GHC > being unbelievably huge. Dynamic linking is the answer, which isn't done by > default. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115459/small-haskell-program-compiled-with-ghc-into-huge-binary > > Aloha, > RK. > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Joe Hillenbrand <joehil...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Domen Kožar <do...@dev.si> wrote: >>> >>> If you want to impose on people to learn Haskell and Nix to contribute, >>> you're going to end up in a lonely island. Remember, Nix tries to be >>> approachable to everyone and that's why it's minimal and simple. >> >> >> I'll never buy the circular argument that "Haskell's not popular because >> Haskell's not popular." I think people would be encouraged to learn Haskell >> if Nix was using it to great success. From what I've seen, a huge chunk of >> the existing Nix community are Haskellers because they understand the >> benefits of purity. I think if there is a clear benefit to a superior tool, >> it should be used, though I'm not entirely convinced there are a huge >> benefit to using Turtle. >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Oliver Charles <ol...@ocharles.org.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> Not sure if you're serious... >> >> >> I'm not sure if I am either. I'm just curious what people think about the >> possibility. >> >>> I'd imagine that the startup overhead is now higher than bash, and the >>> size of closures goes up a lot (you have to pull in the many hundreds of MB >>> that GHC needs). >> >> >> Given those concerns another option could be shell-monad[1][2], which >> outputs shell script, so you get some of the safety benefits of Haskell with >> none of the overhead. Maybe it would be a good middle ground. >> >> [1] http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/shell_monad_day_3/ >> [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shell-monad >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev