link executables dynamically to speed up linking #4423
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I am not sure what ramification this change might have. @wz1000 or @michaelpj, what do you think? |
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Dramatically decreases linking times and shaves 6 of 14G off HLS'
dist-newstyledirectory on my machine by producing way smaller executables.While
cabal building HLS after switching a branch I've noticed linking test executables takes minutes, plural, each. Then I've checked the size of a freshly-built test binary and it was 150-something megabytes, no wonder linker took a while. Withexecutable-dynamicenabled, linking is lightning fast and binaries are a megabyte at most, which should probably improve the developer experience and decrease the feedback loop time.UPD: #2659 seems related, not sure how up-to-date though