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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Speeding up compilation

On 02/04/14 22:43, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
> ocp-build uses a trick to speed-up compilations with camlp4: it
> preprocesses every file only once, and then uses the generated file (a
> binary version of the file AST) with ocamldep, ocamlc and ocamlopt. It
> usually means a x3 speedup.
>
Good idea. What would indeed speed up dependency generation.
Do you know if its possible to have ocamlfind generate a binary version 
of the AST as a separate step?

Regards
Anders