While you're developing the program the extra RTS ... shouldn't be a big deal (though I admit it struck me as odd when I first picked up Haskell). For the final (shipped) binary you can link it with static RTS options ( GHC manual ) by providing a C file containing char *ghc_rts_opts = "-N" .
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