Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Size of executables?

[Duncan C. <dun...@wo...>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 19:51 -0800, John Velman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:13:42PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:37 -0800, John Velman wrote:
> > > It's certainly not urgent, but I'm curious as to why I get bigger
> > > executables than you.  Here's the same sequence of commands from my
> > > computer:
> > > 
> > > bash-2.05b$ ls -l helloworld 
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 jr       users     7322034 Feb 28 14:12 helloworld
> > > bash-2.05b$ strip helloworld 
> > > bash-2.05b$ ls -l helloworld 
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 jr       users     3999244 Mar  1 11:34 helloworld
> > 
> > It varies between platforms too. On my x86 32bit machine I get about 7Mb
> > and 4.5Mb after strip, the same as you. On my sparc machine it goes from
> > about 13Mb to about 7Mb.
> > 
> > What platform, OS, ghc version are you using?

> I'm running Slackware Linux 9.1 for (should upgrade, but don't want to until I
> finish this little project!)  Hardware is Pentium II 400 Mhz.  gcc 3.2.3,
> ghc 6.2.2, and gtk+2-2.2.4.

Nothing odd there. As I say you get the same results as me. I wonder
what's different on Axel's system that he gets smaller binaries.

Duncan