Binary is very large

[samhh]

Almost certainly could pass some flags to bring the size down, currently at ~28MB.

[samhh]

This made no difference somehow:

cabal build "$pkgname" -O2 --enable-executable-stripping --enable-library-stripping --enable-split-objs --enable-split-sections --ghc-options=-dynamic

strip makes no difference.

Notably it reduces down from 31M to 6.4M if it's run through upx. Relevant:

• https://dfithian.github.io/2021/02/28/haskell-executable-sizes.html
• https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/luy89z/haskell_executable_sizes/

Measured with time, upx-compression appears to add ~50ms to the startup time on a beefy system.

🤷‍♂️

[samhh]

The GitHub release via CI produces a binary that's 53M. This can be reduced to 32M with strip.