On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: > > >> I like Haskell, and use it as my main > > >> language. However, compiling a Haskell program > > >> usually takes a lot of memory and CPU. > > Last night I was running top, and noticed cc1 consuming 101MB of RAM > :) I have also seen ar (the thing that makes .a files) consume > 512MB > of RAM.
You need to upgrade your binutils! I sent in a patch to binutils to fix exactly this problem that ar/ranlib takes so much memory when building large ghc "split-objs" libraries. The fix got included in binutils 2.17. I do hope Linspire is using a version with the fix ;-). Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
