#3840: ghc-6.12.1 takes longer to compile code and produces bigger binaries
compared to ghc-6.10.4
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Reporter: maeder | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.12.1
Keywords: | Difficulty:
Os: Linux | Testcase:
Architecture: x86 | Failure: None/Unknown
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Comment(by simonmar):
Replying to [comment:5 simonmar]:
> One reason the GHC binary is bigger is that it now has all the native
code generators compiled in, whereas in 6.10 it only had one. Doubtless
the compiler has just got bigger between 6.10 and 6.12 too.
>
> The distribution is bigger because it now contains shared libraries.
I should add that we did measure binary sizes for nofib before releasing
6.12.1, and we found that while the size of binaries typically increased
by around 10\%, the size of individually compiled modules wasn't much
different, which means that the increase is generally due to more code,
rather than unnecessary inlining for example.
Another thing that we added is the new IO library: Unicode support makes
the base package bigger.
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