A real BBS

Hello, /blog/. A thought just popped into my head and you all need to read about it.

What if someone (not me; I have better shit to do), set up a traditional BBS that required users to dial in, but had it used VoIP via google voice or some other free, mostly-anonymous service. Wouldn't that be neato. Further, full dialup internet access could be provided over the link. That would throw the NSA off for a bit maybe.

Well, off to bed.

>>52
Haskell platform is big only because it includes 4 versions of every library.

- statically linked no profiling version
- statically linked profiling version
- shared no profiling version
- shared profiling version

Every fucking library.

OK, I screwed up a bit. The 4 versions are:

static
dynamic
profiled
GHCi

The GHCi version is just the static version linked together in a single .o file. The other three versions all have their own set of interface files (.hi files) too. The profiled versions seem to be about twice the size of the unprofiled versions (which is a bit suspicious, I should look into why that is).

Remember that GHC itself is a library, so you're getting 4 copies of GHC. Not only that, but the GHC binary itself is statically linked, so that's 5 copies of GHC.