Re: ghc image size

2001-12-14 Thread John Meacham
if you are using GNU tools there is some magic to make them garbage-collect all the symbols in your executable before outputting the final code. you have to do some tricks with the segment headers so that it can GC individual functions but this should fix many of the image size problems at least i

Re: ghc image size

2001-12-14 Thread Jan de Wit
Hi, > I just recently starting to use the ghc compiler and am astonished by the > size of the executables. Out of interest, why are they so large? Is there > any work in progress to make the resulting executable/object somewhat more > "normal" in size? > > I read in the Haskell mailing list archi

Re: ghc image size

2001-12-14 Thread Krasimir Angelov
Executables are smaller when build them with dynamic libraries. Unfortunately dynamic libraries are supported only from ghc-4.08.X for Windows. I am not sure for ghc-5.02.1 __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all o