[Haskell-beginners] Large binary overhead?

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. (I compile on Gentoo Linux x86, if that makes a difference.) Anyway, is that just the way it is, or does this become a non-issue once I learn proper optimization/linking techniques? -- frigidcode.com theologia.indicium.us