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From: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: "'Stéphane Glondu'" <steph@glondu.net>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>, <caml@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Why NOT to compile OCaml via C
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:34:57 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <019501ccb72f$bfb1fac0$3f15f040$@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE1BE59.4020804@glondu.net>

Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> C sure is not a good target language, but assembly is not either.
> The assembly backends of ocamlopt (and GHC... there is no support at all on
> some Debian ports) look like a maintenance burden that their authors obviously
> cannot cope with. I find the idea of making ocamlopt a GCC (or
> LLVM) frontend the most sensible and constructive one I've seen in these
> discussions.

Perhaps because OCaml already has an efficient cross-platform bytecode interpreter.

> However, one barrier is the licensing: QPL is incompatible with almost any
> license (even QT does no longer use it!). Has it ever been considered to switch
> the "public" license to e.g. GPLv3 (which looks constraining enough, and
> compatible with GCC)?

Don't forget the CAML Consortium are selling OCaml under less restrictive licences.

Cheers,
Jon.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-10 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-09  6:57 oleg
2011-12-09  7:52 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-09  9:58   ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 10:06     ` [Caml-devel] " Jonathan Protzenko
2011-12-09 11:03     ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-12-09 12:08     ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 12:37       ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-09 14:05         ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 14:30           ` Török Edwin
2011-12-09 14:51             ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-09 23:38             ` oliver
2011-12-09 21:22           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-12-10  9:36             ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-12-10 11:34   ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2011-12-09 23:01 ` oliver
2011-12-09 23:18 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-12-10  0:20   ` Till Varoquaux
2011-12-10  7:35   ` oleg
2011-12-10 15:40   ` Basile Starynkevitch
2011-12-10 23:56     ` Peter Hawkins
2011-12-11  8:24       ` Basile Starynkevitch

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