How is `ghc Main.hs` different from `ghc --make Main.hs`? - ghc

Question

I see the documentation on ghc's --make, however I do not understand how running ghc with --make is any different from running it without that option.
To investigate, I created these modules Main and Dependency:
module Main where
import Dependency ( myNumber )
main :: IO ()
main = do
print "running program"
print myNumber
print "terminating program"
and
module Dependency where
myNumber :: Integer
myNumber = 42
From the directory containing these modules, I ran both ghc Main.hs and ghc --make Main.hs. Though the two commands wrote different messages while running, both worked successfully and produced the same output files.
$ ghc Main.hs
[1 of 2] Compiling Dependency ( Dependency.hs, Dependency.o )
[2 of 2] Compiling Main ( Main.hs, Main.o )
Linking Main ...
$ ls
Dependency.hi Dependency.hs Dependency.o Main Main.hi Main.hs Main.o
and
$ ghc --make Main.hs
$ ls
Dependency.hi Dependency.hs Dependency.o Main Main.hi Main.hs Main.o
What, if anything, does the --make option do that's different from what ghc does without it?