On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:34:42PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:29:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:05:41PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Where does the native compiler not work, and why? I thought that it > > > just generated C code? > > > > The native code compiler is a real compiler and produces true asm code, > > and even with more optimization possibilities than C code is able to do, > > Ahh, OK. > > Well there is still another option: ocamlc -custom, which generates a > native executable, works on all platforms, and doesn't require the ocaml > packages to run. I wonder about using it?
Nope, this is evil and counter to anything debian stands for. Or would you recomend linking C stuff statically in order to get ride of the need for shared library packages ? Also, ocamlc -custom code is no more binary: all, which cause duplication of almost the same code in many packages, and a heavy burden to those slower arches. The only moment when this is a good idea is with packages like advi, which include C bindings which are not in a separate library. Friendly, Sven Luther
