22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
11:16 p.m.
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote:
I like Haskell, and use it as my main language. However, compiling a Haskell program usually takes a lot of memory and CPU.
Last night I was running top, and noticed cc1 consuming 101MB of RAM :) I have also seen ar (the thing that makes .a files) consume > 512MB of RAM.
You need to upgrade your binutils! I sent in a patch to binutils to fix exactly this problem that ar/ranlib takes so much memory when building large ghc "split-objs" libraries. The fix got included in binutils 2.17. I do hope Linspire is using a version with the fix ;-). Duncan