On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Robert Dockins wrote:
On 6 Dec 2004, at 17:29, John Goerzen wrote:
That is an excellent point. Who would use an ls or cp that requires 10MB of RAM, especially on embedded devices?
This is presumably just because we don't have 'smart' linking, so the whole library is bundled in. I imagine in principle smart linking would be possible...
Indeed, and it would probably help with the xwHaskell bloat from a diffent post.
The strip utility helps somewhat, I just dropped a wxHaskell app from a 10 meg .exe to about 3.6 megs under windows (grab a mingw distro for a strip.exe). It's still not wonderful, but I suspect the growth in binary size with new Haskell code will be reasonably tame at least (the app I tried is fairly low on functionality). A stripped "sig generation" utility I just hacked up came down to 344K under win32, which is still big for what it does but at least it's distributable. -- flippa@flippac.org