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Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries (2023) (https://brandon.si)

21 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 3 comments | View on ycombinator

internet_points 4 days ago |

> This gets the binary down to 64M for me (a further -23%).

while on my system, /usr/bin/pandoc takes 199M; not bad.

ashwinnair99 about 14 hours ago |

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.