Re: [Haskell-beginners] Large binary overhead?

Christopher Howard wrote:

I'm still going through the GHC tutorial, so be patient with me: But why is it that my GHC-produced executables are always so large? Even my one line Hello World program ends up being over 500KB. I thought maybe it was because all of the functionality was statically compiled in, but I used ldd and saw that my hello world binary links dynamically to 10 different C libraries.

Its that size because the Haskell libraries are statically linked into your program. See this SO question/answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115459/small-haskell-program-compiled-wi... Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/