Re: [wxhaskell-users] big executables

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> Why are the wxHaskell executables are so big?

All Haskell executables are big. :)  Those produced by GHC are anyways. 
I usually reduce mine to 1/10 size by running strip and upx.

$ ls -l a.out
-rwx------  1 user user 6681158 May 22 01:51 a.out
$ ldd a.out
        libwxc-gtk2.4.2-0.7.so => /usr/lib/libwxc-gtk2.4.2-0.7.so
        (0x00ab9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x44d69000)
        libreadline.so.4 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x45af5000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x45ab3000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x44d45000)
        libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0x44d6e000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x44e71000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x44c0a000)
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x44efe000)
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x4bb68000)
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x45133000)
        libgthread-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 (0x4bb2d000)
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x4510c000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x4bba2000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x44e4e000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00111000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x45b23000)
        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x4524b000)
        libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x001ef000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x44e5e000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libGL.so.1 (0x4528d000)
        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x00230000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x453d1000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x45385000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x44bf2000)
        libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x450b3000)
$ strip a.out
$ ls -l a.out
-rwx------  1 user user 2860808 Jun  9 15:20 a.out
$ upx a.out
                     Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
         Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
UPX 1.24         Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar         Nov 7th
2002
 
        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
   2860808 ->    620806   21.70%    linux/386    a.out
 
Packed 1 file.
$ ls -l a.out
-rwx------  1 user user 620806 Jun  9 15:20 a.out