From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89CBBC37 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:00:06 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgYEAHu6oEpQRFuwWWdsb2JhbACbNQEWFQS+AoQbBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,332,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33732672" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Sep 2009 16:00:06 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MjZKe-00063z-P1; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:00:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:00:04 +0100 To: Julien Signoles Cc: caml list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't use batteries Message-ID: <20090904140004.GA22690@annexia.org> References: <4AA10CF0.7070403@cea.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AA10CF0.7070403@cea.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0200,:01 signoles:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 runtime:01 statically:01 libasmrun:01 iirc:01 2009:98 wrote:01 binaries:01 caml-list:01 executables:01 linking:02 seems:03 On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:49:52PM +0200, Julien Signoles wrote: > 3) It makes my executables too big > Yes, even if it seems to be improved in a close future. Is this a complaint against Batteries in particular or OCaml in general? OCaml binaries in general are rather large, and it appears to be because the runtime / GC is statically linked. Do you know how much this would improve with dynamic linking of libasmrun.a (which IIRC was a feature added in 3.11)? Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat