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Date: | 2003-11-12 (23:59) |
From: | John J Lee <jjl@p...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Executable size? |
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Eric Dahlman wrote: > John J Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Brian Hurt wrote: > >>Currying, exceptions, etc. also have small size penalties. > > OK. I'm now enlightened on that point -- clearly, O'Caml's runtime is an > > absolute requirement for an O'Caml program (unlike C/C++). > > C and C++ are not special in this regard, they just happen to be shipped > with the operating system. On my box hello world links against libc.so > and ld.so which are 1,531,964 and 103,044 bytes respectively. [...] I don't understand what this has to do with what I said in the quote. Yes, C runtime is present on essentially all systems, but the point is that C and O'Caml are fundamentally different: with C, you can *ignore* that runtime, and write a program that simply doesn't use it at all. Not so with O'Caml (for perfectly good and sensible reasons). > One way to even things up is require the C version to link to all of its [...] Also, I'm simply looking for a way to distribute code, not trying to start a pissing contest between C and O'Caml :-) so I'm not interested in "evening things up". > Really what you need to do is lobby Microsoft and Apple to include ocaml > as part of the base system install and then things might even out ;-) Well, I guess they already have, in the sense that O'Caml has a .NET implementation -- right? Always assuming that implementation is more than the publicity stunt that the Python one was, of course... 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