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 TAA02695; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:51:16 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03172 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:51:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.210]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hACIpE104163 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:51:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from modem-525.beedrill.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.34.13]) by cmailm2.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AK05B-0007Ee-Fu for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:51:14 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:50:52 +0000 (GMT) From: John J Lee X-X-Sender: john@alice To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Executable size? In-Reply-To: <20031112183157.GA16395@iliana> Message-ID: References: <20031112173335.GA32347@redhat.com> <20031112183157.GA16395@iliana> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sven:01 luther:01 dynamically:01 usr:01 ledit:01 usr:01 ledit:01 ocamlrun:01 -rwxr-xr-x:01 wire:99 bin:01 bin:01 linked:01 bindings:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:06:52AM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote: [...] > But then, you can link it dynamically : > > $ file /usr/bin/ledit > /usr/bin/ledit: a /usr/bin/ocamlrun script text executable > $ ls -l /usr/bin/ledit > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94857 2003-09-30 22:40 /usr/bin/ledit > > But then, you would only gain for packages using huge C bindings. [...] This may be of interest to others, but personally, it doesn't matter much to me how it's linked. The problem is minimising the total data to be transferred over the wire, including any shared libraries. John ------------------- 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