Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

On 01/04/15 12:30, Jeremy wrote:

Why do the 7.10 libraries take up so much more space than 7.8? For example, using the same build options and strip --strip-unneeded, 7.8 leaves me with

15M libHSCabal-1.18.1.5.a 17M HSCabal-1.18.1.5.o

whereas 7.10 balloons to

23M HSCabal-1.22.2.0-HWT8QvVfJLn2ubvobpycJY.o 53M libHSCabal-1.22.2.0-HWT8QvVfJLn2ubvobpycJY.a

I'm not denying (or confirming) your claim, but it would look more legitimate if you compared the same version of Cabal compiled with different versions of GHC. At least some of this bloat could be because Cabal simply gained more code. Roman