6 Dec
2004
6 Dec
'04
3:51 p.m.
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
The strip utility helps somewhat, I just dropped a wxHaskell app from a 10 meg .exe to about 3.6 megs under windows.
You can also compress the stripped executable with UPX. GHC-generated executables seem to compress very well (about 4:1 in my experience), and even a very large executable, like GHC itself, decompresses so quickly that I can hardly tell the difference in startup time. Caveat: this actually increases virtual memory requirements, since the executable image in memory can't be backed by the executable file on disk. -- Ben