On 01/26/2013 09:24 AM, Nathan Hüsken wrote: > On 01/25/2013 05:45 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: >> On 25/01/13 16:35, Simon Marlow wrote: >>> On 25/01/13 15:51, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: >>>> Somebody claiming to be Simon Marlow wrote: >>>>> On 25/01/13 13:58, Nathan Hüsken wrote: >>>>>> A simple hello world application has 1Mb in by 64 bit ubunut machine. >>>>>> When I stript it, is has about 750kb. >>>>>> When I build a cross compiler for android (arm), the executable has a >>>>>> asize of about 10MB, stripped about 5MB. >>>>>> >>>>>> That is huge, five times the size on my linux sysem. >>>>> >>>>> Not sure what you mean by "five times the size on my linux system". >>>>> What is 5 times larger than what? >>>> >>>> He's saying that the size of the android executable (made by his cross >>>> compiler) is five time the sive of the equivalent Ubuntu executable >>>> (made by, I assume, his system's GHC). > > Yes, exactly. Sorry for my bad phrasing. > >>>> The problem is not the size, but the size ratio. >>> >>> Ah, I see. Yes, my executables are a similar size. I'm not sure why, >>> I'll try to look into it. >> >> It's just the lack of SPLIT_OBJS. Also, unregisterised accounts for a >> factor of 1.5 or so. > > What exactly does SPLIT_OBJS do? Is there a chance to get it working for > cross platform? > There must be a lot of unused code in the exectuable. Is there no way to > remove it? > 5 Mb is rather large for an android app. >
Maybe it would help to pass parameters like "-adce" or "-globaldce" to opt (from llvm). But I can not figure out how I can tell ghc to pass these parameters. Someone knows? Regards, Nathan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
