I've had good experience shifting from a custom makefile to using
ocamlbuild on a project with around 120 files and moderate preprocessing.
The custom makefile was a pain to maintain and seemed to be doing too much
work.

-Yotam


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Fabrice Le Fessant <
Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr> 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.
>
> --Fabrice
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Daniel Bünzli <
> daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Le mercredi, 2 avril 2014 à 22:14, Anders Peter Fugmann a écrit :
>>
>> > Is there any way to use a optimized version of camlp4.
>>
>> Not sure that this will work as it it not mentioned in the documentation
>> [1] but did you try to add
>>
>> camlp4="camlp4.opt"
>>
>> in .opam/$SWITCH/lib/findlib.conf (or wherever it is on your machine).
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> [1]
>> http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/dl/findlib-1.4.1/doc/ref-html/r775.html
>>
>>
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