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From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: "Matej Košík" <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd764f@gmail.com>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] a question about "ocamlopt" and "ocamldep"
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:23:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBG24dwykhjUegS-af7qQ+1HAaryxVYmvVkjoqrNhF+A5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F607390.5040705@gmail.com>

> :-(

I don't understand. Why is it sad to have the *ability* to perform
cross-module implementation-dependent optimizations (at the inevitable
cost of locally damaging separate compilation) *if* you wish?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Matej Košík
<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd764f@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 06:34 PM, Matthias Puech wrote:
>> This is consistent with how ocamlc/ocamlopt work: separate compilation
>> is ensured the way you think by bytecode .cmo compilation: to build a
>> module, you only need the *interfaces* of its dependencies, but it is
>> unfortunately not ensured when compiling to native code, because of the
>> global (inter-modules) optimizations performed (inlining AFAIK). Thus,
>> to build a .cmx module, you need to be aware of the actual *code* of its
>> dependencies.
>
> :-(
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 10:31 Matej Košík
2012-03-14 11:23 ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]
2012-03-14 12:38   ` Matej Košík
2012-03-14 13:19     ` Virgile Prevosto
2012-03-14 17:12       ` Gabriel Scherer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-13 18:19 Matej Košík
2012-03-13 18:34 ` Matthias Puech
2012-03-13 19:26   ` Gabriel Scherer

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