Let's not turn this into a (nother) thread about build systems.

On 11 January 2015 at 11:39, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
Am Samstag, den 10.01.2015, 21:13 +0300 schrieb Peter Zotov:
> On 2015-01-10 19:29, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > Dear Ocaml list,
> >
> > I would be very pleased if the members who have a lasting interest in
> > the subject of human-level AI would network with me. We have a startup
> > working on that subject. Our code base is mainly in ocaml, and our
> > team might need some extra programmers in the near future. Although
> > this is not a formal job advertisement (yet), those who would like to
> > get in touch may just send me a mail for meeting and briefly introduce
> > themselves. I would very much welcome such personal networking and
> > getting to know fellow functional programming hackers who are also
> > interested in advancing the state-of-the-art in machine learning.
>
> Do you think that once implemented, such an AI would be able
> to implement a decent build system for OCaml?
> I think it would be a very worthwhile goal.

FYI, I'm currently hacking on the performance problems of omake for very
large builds (sponsored by Lexifi), and I'm making progress. My test
project with 4096 modules is now built in 7 minutes instead of 24
(single core). It's a fairly interesting exercise to view the build
system from the perspective of a performance engineer, e.g. I'm
currently redesigning the target cache that is backing the
interpretation of the "ocamldep -modules" output to quickly find the
files corresponding to the modules.

Gerd
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