id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
4416	Quasiquoting without bloating	rrnewton		"Quasiquoting is a compile-time feature, and sometimes can be useful for purposes as modest as multiline strings (see Hackage packages such as interpolatedstring-perl6).

However, I found that using quasiquoting would add about twelve megabytes to final executable size (on 6.12.1 and 6.13.20090607).  It seems GHC links all of the libraries used at compile time into the final executable as well.  Could GHC prune these?

Note: you can reproduce this effect with a simple hello world program like below:

{{{
    import Text.InterpolatedString.Perl6 (q)
    foo :: String
    foo = [$q|
       Well here is a
       multi-line string!
    |]
    main = putStrLn foo
}}}"	feature request	closed	normal		Compiler	6.13	duplicate			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple	None/Unknown