GHC 7.8.1 released

Re:GHC 7.8.1 released by icetortoise on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @11:21AM (#7559818)

While this is nice, it results in a big static lib(27M) to include in your app. This might be okey for some games, but maybe not for small apps. I was very interested in a Haskell app, but eventually gave up because of this...

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Re:GHC 7.8.1 released by maxpow4h on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @11:46AM (#7560015)

the twitter app is 30M, we have already past the point of sensible app sizes. edit: fb messenger is 60M, a ghc-ios app with the elm compiler baked in is 24M.

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Re:GHC 7.8.1 released by tvon on Thursday April 10, 2014 @12:14PM (#7567433)

To me that makes it clear that a minimum size of over 20M is a serious problem.

How crazy would it be if the Twitter app was over 50M, or Facebook Messenger over 80M?

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Re:GHC 7.8.1 released by tvon on Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:42PM (#7569568)

(I should not have said "serious problem", I should have said "notable barrier to adoption." That people have made this possible at all is fantastic.)

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