GNU bug report logs - #51928
GHC 8.10 occupies 1.6 GiB

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Message #17 received at 51928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#51928: GHC 8.10 occupies 1.6 GiB
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:45:28 +0100

On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:03:38 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > In Guix they aren't used typically (everything gets linked
> > dynamically);  
> 
> I think they’re used for ‘pandoc’.
> 
> Also, in general, we don’t want to make static linking impossible, so
> we could move .a files to a separate output as for ‘glibc’.
> 
> Ludo’.

If I recall correctly there was a discussion some months back about
Haskell binaries being smaller when linked statically.

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