From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA00480; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:07:12 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00019 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:07:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from bob.west.spy.net (mail.west.spy.net [66.149.231.226]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hACI77100969 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:07:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from [10.9.254.240] (sjc-dist3-e3.2wire.com [63.203.253.2]) by bob.west.spy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8871C6618; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:06:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20031112173335.GA32347@redhat.com> References: <20031112173335.GA32347@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John J Lee , caml-list@inria.fr From: Dustin Sallings Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Executable size? Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:06:52 -0800 To: Richard Jones X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 usr:01 bin:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 bytecode:01 bytecode:01 executables:01 executables:01 nov:01 nov:01 native:02 executable:03 wrote:03 scripting:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Nov 12, 2003, at 9:33, Richard Jones wrote: > Of course you can always use OCaml as a scripting language (ie. tiny > "executables" preceeded by #!/usr/bin/ocaml), or distribute the > bytecode, which tends to be small, so you have more choices than the > languages you've listed above. I haven't seen the bytecode be much smaller than native executables: -rwx--x--x 1 dustin staff 320900 12 Nov 10:06 parseTimingLog* -rwx------ 1 dustin staff 306614 12 Nov 09:59 parseTimingLogbc* -- Dustin Sallings ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners