On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 04:30:33PM +0200, Török Edwin wrote: [...] > Is binary compatibility with a specific version of ocamlopt necessary? > I think that ocaml-llvm could detect the mismatch and print an error, like > you get for an ABI mismatch. > > Sure it'd be nice to be able to try out ocaml-llvm without rebuilding all > OCaml packages, > but such a rebuilt is required when new OCaml releases come out anyway, as > they are usually not ABI compatible with each-other. [...]
If it produces the same output as OCaml does now, why to investigate ocaml-llvm? Maybe changing OCaml from non-optimizing to an optimizing compiler would outperform any llvm attempts. Mabye the core team alkready works on this... who knows? ;-) Ciao, Oliver -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
