[Haskell-beginners] GHC-generated executables size

[David Virebayre]

2010/10/17 Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de>:

> $ cat helloWorld.hs
> module Main (main) where
>
> main :: IO ()
> main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"
> $ ghc --make helloWorld.hs
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( helloWorld.hs, helloWorld.o )
> Linking helloWorld ...
> $ ls -l helloWorld
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 dafis users 618581 17. Okt 13:53 helloWorld

jhc makes remarkably small executables, this example takes 11268
bytes, 5756 when stripped.

Sad that many libraries, and  gtk2hs don't work with it.

David.