[GHC] #4416: Quasiquoting without bloating

[GHC]

#4416: Quasiquoting without bloating
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    Reporter:  rrnewton          |       Owner:              
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new         
    Priority:  normal            |   Component:  Compiler    
     Version:  6.13              |    Keywords:              
    Testcase:                    |   Blockedby:              
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |    Blocking:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown
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 Quasiquoting is a compile-time feature, and sometimes can be useful for
 purposes as modest as multiline strings (see Hackage packages such as
 interpolatedstring-perl6).

 However, I found that using quasiquoting would add about twelve megabytes
 to final executable size (on 6.12.1 and 6.13.20090607).  It seems GHC
 links all of the libraries used at compile time into the final executable
 as well.  Could GHC prune these?

 Note: you can reproduce this effect with a simple hello world program like
 below:

 {{{
     import Text.InterpolatedString.Perl6 (q)
     foo :: String
     foo = [$q|
        Well here is a
        multi-line string!
     |]
     main = putStrLn foo
 }}}

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