On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:50:00AM +0300, Jere Sanisalo wrote:

> Because ocaml compilers/runtimes do not exist for every platform (say,
> consoles). And because compiling to C code could allow you to write
> independent libraries for others to use.

The runtime is actually there for a reason.  It is much of what makes
ocaml, ocaml.  Even if you could generate C code from ocaml (it probably
wouldn't be very good, unless you did lots of non-compiler-portable
tricks like GHC), it would still need the same kind of runtime.  Ocaml
programs generate a lot of short-lived garbage.  Without a garbage
collector, the program would eat up a lot of memory.

The native code runtime isn't very big.

I think effort would be better spent porting the runtime to these new
platforms.

Dave Brown

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