Binary bloat in 7.10

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Just to check, can someone summarise the conclusion of this thread?  Was it all due to -fsplit-objs?  If so, should we add some notes to the user manual to explain what may happen if you use -fsplit-objs? What was the business about Cabal?

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Glasgow-haskell-users [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-
|  bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy
|  Sent: 05 April 2015 20:30
|  To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Binary bloat in 7.10
|  
|  Thomas Miedema wrote
|  > That suggestion was completely misguided. Compiling with `-split-objs`
|  > makes a library _grow_ in size, but makes executables that link
|  > against it _smaller_.
|  >
|  > All these numbers are not far off from the ones you were getting. I
|  > think you have been comparing a 7.8.4 build of Cabal without split
|  > objects, with a 7.10.1 build of Cabal with split objects.
|  >
|  > I don't think there is a bug here.
|  
|  My GHC build is now back to the 7.8-era size. Thank you!
|  
|  I was wondering why programs compiled with my GHC 7.8 build were bigger
|  than if I used an official build. Perhaps a bug in the 7.8 build system
|  had turned off SplitObjs.
|  
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