Mind you I'm just trying to come up with theories we can test, I'm not assigning blame.  :)

I'm not sure how to do the apples to apples comparison, but it sounds like some sleuthing Is In order.

I dont have a 7.10 setup yet, but if someone can put a tarballed dist build folder for a 7.10 and the same for 7.8 for some lib that blows up,I'm happy to try to dig i n.  Or I'll get things setup later this week to do the full comparison locally.

On Apr 1, 2015 11:12 AM, "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang@mit.edu> wrote:
Yes, this does seem like a potential culprit, although
we did do some measurements and I didn't think it was too bad.
Maybe we were wrong!

Edward

Excerpts from Jeremy's message of 2015-04-01 07:26:55 -0700:
> Carter Schonwald wrote
> > How much of this might be attributable to longer linker symbol names? Ghc
> > 7.10 object  code does have larger symbols!  Is there a way to easily
> > tabulate that?
>
> That would explain why the hi files have also increased many-fold. Is there
> any way to avoid the larger symbols?
>
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