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DaiPlusPlus on Oct 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables

Is there a reason the Haskell compiler can't trim-out code it knows won't be used? Or is there another reason for the large size?

tome on Oct 12, 2017 | [–]

The word on the street is that it's not unused code but rather aggressively inlined code.

kccqzy on Oct 12, 2017 | [–]

That’s called split sections and it’s enabled by default in GHC 8.2.1. The main reason is aggressively inlined code compiled slightly differently.

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