From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA14920; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:43:55 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA15933 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:43:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0GGhq504122; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:43:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA15999; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:43:51 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:43:51 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Sven Cc: Pixel , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] -thread and ocamlc vs ocamlc.opt Message-ID: <20020116174351.A15459@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <20020116170335.B13963@pauillac.inria.fr> <20020116172954.A8211@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20020116172954.A8211@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>; from luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:29:54PM +0100 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Is there really much people using the .opt compilers ? Does it really make > sense to have them packaged ? They speed up compilations by a factor of 2 or 3. Some of my colleagues use them for this reason, but that's because they have 3-year old workstations :-) With more recent hardware, I've never been bothered by the compilation speed of the non-.opt compilers, and thus don't use them except for testing purposes. > I myself was considering splitting them of into a separate debian package, > since they are big, and most probably not used that much. That sounds reasonable to me. > I could also simply disable the building of them, but am afraid someone will > need them in the future. Well, there are always users that cling to their 90 Mhz Pentium :-) - Xavier Leroy ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr