Willem Robert van Hage
I'm trying out GHC along with gtk+hs and iHaskell and I was surprised that a simple example with a list of selectable distribution names generated a binary of 2Mb. So I tried a simple hello world example exactly like the one I saw somewhere on the GHC pages that compiled to a binary of 6kb and I was surprised to see that even after stripping the binary it still takes up 140kb. Is there a good explanation for this? Am I doing something wrong or is it something else?
The whole Gtk+HS libraries are linked in even if you only need a fraction of the available functionality. It is possible to get GHC to handle this somewhat better (as done with all the libraries distributed in the GHC bundle): http://haskell.org/pipermail/gtkhs/2001-August/000068.html Cheers, Manuel