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Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries (2023)

23 points by PaulHoule

by internet_points

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> This gets the binary down to 64M for me (a further -23%).
while on my system, /usr/bin/pandoc takes 199M; not bad.

by ashwinnair99

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Haskell binary size has been a running joke for years. Good to see actual progress. The runtime was always the real culprit more than the code itself.