[Haskell-cafe] Re: problems with hs-plugins load-eval (possible bug)

[Gwern Branwen]

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2008/12/11 Alberto G. Corona :
> Workaround:  duplicate all the imported files and include a different copy
> in each side.
> Another workaround: package all the files imported in both sides.
> Surprisingly, duplicate references do not appear when the imported files are
> in a package.
> PD: plugins adds 18 MBytes!!  to the size of the executable. I suppose that
> this is because the ghc library.

Yep. It's worth noting though: 1) this is true whether you go through
hs-plugins or hint or raw GHC API. (Although Hint/raw API may be
smaller - my Mueval binary is 13M total.) 2) You can shrink the binary
a fair bit with 'strip' 3) Such binaries compress *very* well with
utilities such as UPX. 4) This size may improve whenever dynamic
libraries come and static linking is not the default.

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gwern
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