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link executables dynamically to speed up linking #4423

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@develop7 develop7 commented Oct 12, 2024

Dramatically decreases linking times and shaves 6 of 14G off HLS' dist-newstyle directory 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. With executable-dynamic enabled, 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

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fendor commented Oct 12, 2024

I am not sure what ramification this change might have. @wz1000 or @michaelpj, what do you think?
We could also try to enabling it in CI only.

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