On 2004-12-06, Robert Dockins
On 6 Dec 2004, at 17:29, John Goerzen wrote:
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.
Could you clarify what exactly "smart linking" is? The assumption I have gleaned with talking to a few experts on IRC is this: Presently, ghc will only link in a .o component of a .a file if symbols from that .o file are actually used in the final executable. This is the motiviation for the split-objs feature; to reduce the size of executables that use quite large .o files. In my experience, most .o files are not that large. Does that agree with your experience? -- John