[GHC] #6042: GHC is bloated

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#6042: GHC is bloated
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    Reporter:  simonmar          |       Owner:  pcapriotti      
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  highest           |   Milestone:  7.6.1           
   Component:  Compiler          |     Version:  7.4.1           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
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Comment(by pcapriotti):

 I haven't looked at the libraries, but libghc.a alone has increased in
 size between 7.0 and 7.4.

 The increase between 7.0 and 7.2 seems to be mostly due to the blowup of
 CmmParse and related modules (ParserCore, Lexer).

 That went away in 7.4, but libghc.a is still as large in 7.4 as 7.2.
 Looking at the deltas between 7.0 and 7.4 isn't particularly illuminating,
 though. Some modules increased, some shrinked, giving a positive total,
 and it's hard to draw any conclusion just by looking at the sizes.

 I attached a CSV with sizes by module, sorted by difference between 7.0
 and 7.4.

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