Why is my GHC bigger than the distribution
7 Aug
2013
7 Aug
'13
3:23 p.m.
I've built GHC 7.6.3 from source using the default "perf" settings, and all my programs are about 4 Mb bigger after linking than if I used the pre-built binary. What could be causing this? (x64 Linux with gold linker.)
7 Aug
7 Aug
3:33 p.m.
vold <voldermort <at> hotmail.com> writes: Sorry, that wasn't completely clear. It's both the GHC binary itself and everything build by GHC which is a few MB bigger.
4 p.m.
vold <voldermort <at> hotmail.com> writes: Now I've noticed something even weirder - if I replace the GHC binary from the binary distribution with the one I built, the executables I produce with it are the original size.
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