7.3. Smaller: producing a program that is smaller
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## 7.3. Smaller: producing a program that is smaller

Decrease the “go-for-it” threshold for unfolding smallish expressions. Give a `-funfolding-use-threshold0` option for the extreme case. (“Only unfoldings with zero cost should proceed.”) Warning: except in certain specialised cases (like Happy parsers) this is likely to actually increase the size of your program, because unfolding generally enables extra simplifying optimisations to be performed.

Avoid `Read`.

Use `strip` on your executables.

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