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🚀 Wow, a riveting tale about squeezing the bloat out of #Haskell binaries. Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend optimizing code so niche it's basically a hipster's dream? 🧙‍♂️✨ Just embrace the 100MB, folks; your hard drives can handle it! 😂
https://brandon.si/code/linking-smaller-haskell-binaries/ #Optimization #CodeNiche #WeekendBloatReduction #HipsterCoding #HackerNews #ngated
Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries | Brandon Simmons' website

Haskell binaries can get quite large (think ~100MB), especially for projects with many transitive dependencies. Here are two strategies that can help at link time, the latter being more experimental. I used the test-pandoc binary from pandoc on GHC 9.2.5 below. This was nice because obviously it was easy to test if linking broke anything (just run the tests). -split-sections and --gc-sections You can instruct ghc to emit code in individual minimal sections, allowing the linker to easily find and remove dead code. This looks like, in your cabal.project:

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 26, 2025
🐪🤯 Oh, the riveting saga of Llama.cpp's heap—it’s like watching paint dry, but with more compiler errors. Our intrepid hacker spent 30 hours (yes, you read that right) dissecting code so niche, even the bugs were disinterested. 🐛💤
https://retr0.blog/blog/llama-rpc-rce #LlamaCpp #Debugging #CodeNiche #CompilerErrors #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated
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