From: Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com>
To: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] whither portability?
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:55:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ7XQb5Xmd0TW_91_8gqeHptFPAuaYpeNCuP4piZx-rsQ2X9yA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e362fc9688066d13af18b848035e02de@whitequark.org>
> Both ocamlc and ocamlopt work for iOS and Android; there is not really
> a good reason to use the bytecode compiler for deployment to mobile.
>
> There is no such thing as "LLVM bytecode" and LLVM bitcode (sic)
> is merely an intermediate format for native executable code. Shipping
> LLVM bitcode offers no conceptual improvement over shipping
> machine code and in any case, there is neither an LLVM backend
> for ocamlopt nor much need for such a backend.
Yes, "bitcode" is the right term. It is now the format Apple wants. So
I dunno why people would actively discount it here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-27 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-25 21:13 Raoul Duke
2015-09-26 9:28 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2015-09-26 12:48 ` Raoul Duke
2015-09-26 15:59 ` whitequark
2015-09-26 16:21 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2015-09-26 23:29 ` Raoul Duke
2015-09-27 0:47 ` Spiros Eliopoulos
2015-09-27 0:51 ` Raoul Duke
2015-09-27 0:20 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-09-27 0:27 ` Yotam Barnoy
2015-09-27 14:10 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-09-27 0:55 ` Raoul Duke [this message]
2015-09-27 14:33 ` whitequark
2015-09-27 17:19 ` Raoul Duke
2015-09-27 17:41 ` whitequark
2015-09-26 17:10 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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