From: John V. <ve...@co...> - 2005-03-02 03:46:34
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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? > > Duncan > > 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. Best, John V. |