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

You should count your blessings (370Kb? Luuuxury) :

bash$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.0.24, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.

* (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "my.core")
[undoing binding stack and other enclosing state... done]
[saving current Lisp image into ./my.core:
...
done]
bash$ du -sh my.core 
 25M    my.core
bash$ 

Seriously though while you can probably shake out haskell binaries a bit, it's really not a fair comparison with C. There's a more going on there.

Last time I played with ghc (and this might be out of date) it was statically linking everything, which will be a factor.