Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Jeremy
Why do the 7.10 libraries take up so much more space than 7.8? For example, using the same build options and strip --strip-unneeded, 7.8 leaves me with 15M libHSCabal-1.18.1.5.a 17M HSCabal-1.18.1.5.o whereas 7.10 balloons to 23M HSCabal-1.22.2.0-HWT8QvVfJLn2ubvobpycJY.o 53M

Increased memory usage with GHC 7.10.1

2015-04-01 Thread Jan Stolarek
Forall hi, I just uprgaded both of my machines to use GHC 7.10.1. I keep sandboxed installations of GHC and this means I had to rebuild Agda and Idris because the binaries built with GHC 7.8.4 were stored inside deactivated 7.8.4 sandbox. Sadly, I had problems building both Agda and Idris

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Jeremy
Roman Cheplyaka-2 wrote I'm not denying (or confirming) your claim, but it would look more legitimate if you compared the same version of Cabal compiled with different versions of GHC. At least some of this bloat could be because Cabal simply gained more code. Tricky to test that because

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
On 01/04/15 12:30, Jeremy wrote: Why do the 7.10 libraries take up so much more space than 7.8? For example, using the same build options and strip --strip-unneeded, 7.8 leaves me with 15M libHSCabal-1.18.1.5.a 17M HSCabal-1.18.1.5.o whereas 7.10 balloons to 23M

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Karel Gardas
7.10.1 should IIRC support some kind of DWARF debugging information and IIRC it was mentioned and decided on ghc devel that the libraries will ship with some DWARF to easy debugging -- but takes me lightly on it and verify if this is the case since I may be completely off and this may apply

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Jeremy
It's not just binaries, even hi files have ballooned. (I should note that (stripped) executables appear to be unaffected.) -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Binary-bloat-in-7-10-tp5768067p5768072.html Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Jeremy
Karel Gardas wrote 7.10.1 should IIRC support some kind of DWARF debugging information and IIRC it was mentioned and decided on ghc devel that the libraries will ship with some DWARF to easy debugging -- but takes me lightly on it and verify if this is the case since I may be completely

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Jeremy
Roman Cheplyaka-2 wrote I'm not denying (or confirming) your claim, but it would look more legitimate if you compared the same version of Cabal compiled with different versions of GHC. At least some of this bloat could be because Cabal simply gained more code. I was going to prove you

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Carter Schonwald
How much of this might be attributable to longer linker symbol names? Ghc 7.10 object code does have larger symbols! Is there a way to easily tabulate that? On Apr 1, 2015 9:40 AM, Jeremy volderm...@hotmail.com wrote: Roman Cheplyaka-2 wrote I'm not denying (or confirming) your claim, but it

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Jeremy
Carter Schonwald wrote How much of this might be attributable to longer linker symbol names? Ghc 7.10 object code does have larger symbols! Is there a way to easily tabulate that? That would explain why the hi files have also increased many-fold. Is there any way to avoid the larger symbols?

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Trstenjak
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:30:49AM -0700, Jeremy wrote: Why do the 7.10 libraries take up so much more space than 7.8? For example, using the same build options and strip --strip-unneeded, 7.8 leaves me with That would be some kind of harsh april 1st joke, if everything compiled at that day

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Yes, this does seem like a potential culprit, although we did do some measurements and I didn't think it was too bad. Maybe we were wrong! Edward Excerpts from Jeremy's message of 2015-04-01 07:26:55 -0700: Carter Schonwald wrote How much of this might be attributable to longer linker symbol

Re: Binary bloat in 7.10

2015-04-01 Thread Carter Schonwald
Mind you I'm just trying to come up with theories we can test, I'm not assigning blame. :) I'm not sure how to do the apples to apples comparison, but it sounds like some sleuthing Is In order. I dont have a 7.10 setup yet, but if someone can put a tarballed dist build folder for a 7.10 and the