On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 02:49, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 15:12, skaller wrote:
> > ...
> > When you instantiate a Set.Make .. you only have
> > the interface. Hard to inline without actually having
> > the body of the functor..
> 
> Sure, so you can't do it if you're creating a DLL for the OS to handle. But if 
> you're making an executable, as I suspect most of us are, then you can do it 
> (perhaps at compile-time, definitely by link-time).

Separate compilation is a tradeoff between
fast building and fast executables.

Ocaml is famous for amortising costs in a sensible
way. In the few cases the costs were critical,
they've been fixed: eg arrays of unboxed floats.

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