Making small haskell executables?

Question

Are there any good ways to make small haskell executables? With ghc6 a simple hello world program seems to come to about 370kB (523kB before strip). Hello world in C is abou

Answer 1

strip -p --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment -o your_executable_small your_executable

also try looking at ldd -dr your_executable