There are larger runtimes. # echo 'main = putStrLn "hi"' > hi.hs # ghc --make -optl=-static -optl=-pthread hi.hs -o hi [1 of 1] Compiling Main

There are larger runtimes. # echo 'main = putStrLn "hi"' > hi.hs # ghc --make -optl=-static -optl=-pthread hi.hs -o hi [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( hi.hs, hi.o ) Linking hi ... # file hi hi: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped # du -hs hi 10.6M hi # strip hi # du -hs hi 4.4M hi This is against musl libc by the way.