Ethan Grammatikidis <[email protected]> writes: > Anyone know why ghc is that big? I'm having trouble figuring it out.
It bundles a large amount of libraries, and probably duplicate versions with profiling data as well. A self-contained GHC build (as created after compiling and prior to installation) is 182MiB on my system, and that includes Cabal (the package manager/make system), program coverage checking tools, debugging tools and a bunch of other things. Binaries generated by GHC are indeed fairly huge, but the number in the quoted email seems inflated. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
