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tehabe on March 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Su...

How is something which needs a >700 MB runtime doomed to succeed. I think even Java is smaller than that. Not sure though.

Agathos on March 30, 2014 | [–]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-lar...

thirsteh on March 30, 2014 | | [–]

700 MB runtime implies every compiled binary is 700+ MB, which is obviously untrue. You probably mean the compiler and standard libraries.

iopq on March 31, 2014 | [–]

700MB? Considering my SSD is 400GB, why would I care?

Ygg2 on March 31, 2014 | [–]

Because some devices don't have 400GB of SSD?

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