[Caml-list] Re: Preferred layout for new packages

[Dawid Toton <d0@wp.pl>]

On 11/15/2012 10:20 AM, rixed@happyleptic.org wrote:
> -[ Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:13:58AM -0800, vincent.hugot@gmail.com ]----
>> I for one like the (short-)tests-as-comments approach: being near the
>> function, they serve as short specifications, and being comments, they don't
>> alter the compilation process in the least.
>
> The only drawback I saw is that adding or modifying a test triggers the
> recompilation of the whole unit when using makefiles (since the file changed).
> I wonder if there exist a tool that's able to find out that since only comments
> where changed the module need not be recompiled. Maybe omake can do this ?
>

You usually want correct line numbers to be preserved in the executable 
for e.g. assertion failures. So, in general, it's not possible to save 
time in the way you describe unless the compiler itself works in an 
incremental manner.
Dawid