Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 16:24, Andrei de A. Formiga wrote:

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I'm finding wxHaskell very nice, and a wxWidgets binding is something many other "advanced" languages don't have (even OCaml). The only downside is having a 'Hello World' GUI application with 7 Mb... but it runs quite well and smooth once it's loaded.

We have the same problem with gtk2hs. A stripped simple(ish) prog weighs in at about 2.5Mb.

I'm not quite sure what's in there that makes it so big.

Duncan

ghc doesn't support dynamic linking for Haskell libraries (a combination of the amount of work involved and the platform-specific nature of the work and the size of modern hard disks and the frequency with which ghc's ABI changes and the number of implementation details which ghc sticks into the exported ABI of a library anyway (via cross-module inlining)). So any Haskell libraries you use will get statically linked. Jon Cast