6.6.1 vs 6.8.2 --- Re: large binary footprint ?

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 23:04 schrieb HP Wei:
> I convinced myself that the ~500kbytes for the
> 'hello' code is 'correct' in version 6.6.1.
> [ The exact size on the platform mentioned below
>   is 422k. ]
>
> Looks like version 6.8.2 blows up the binary code size
> significantly --- 3.9Mbytes vs 0.422Mbytes.
>
> Is this a known issue with 6.8.2 ?
> Is it a specific platform dependent issue --- i.e.
> does it occur on linux machines ??
>

I get 490k for hello without stripping and 274k with stripping on linux.
It might be the "-L../lib" option which blows up the binary size. 
What happens if you just
ghc --make hello
?

Cheers,
Daniel