[Haskell-beginners] GHC-generated executables size

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:26:00 +0200, . <ch.gosch at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was playing around with ghc again, and I was wondering what makes
> the executables so large and how I could make them smaller (strip works,
> but is there anything more I can do?)

UPX [0] compresses executables and DLLs quite well (use it after "strip"  
for the best results).

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


[0] http://upx.sourceforge.net/

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