Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries (2023)
21 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 3 comments
ashwinnair99 11 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.
replywhateveracct 6 hours ago
With haskell-flake, it's pretty easy to get statically-linked executables. I've got them down to like 20MB with a single Nix stanza.
replyhttps://community.flake.parts/haskell-flake/size I actually am not sure if haskell-flake is even needed here? I just learned about this from its docs, but justStaticExecutables looks like an upstream nixpkgs function.
while on my system, /usr/bin/pandoc takes 199M; not bad.