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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>,
	"'caml users'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Single-case union types as strong typedefs
Date: 27 Oct 2004 03:34:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098812039.2903.147.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-70171963@cgpsrv2.cis.mcmaster.ca>

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 01:05, Jacques Carette wrote:

> I consider a linker to be an integral part of a compiler 'suite'. 
>  I could not care less when a particular code 
> optimization is done.  If it *has* to be done by the linker, then so be it.  
> I do not understand why link-time 
> optimizations seem to have been somehow less research-worthy 
> than other parts of the compiler.

Why do we need separate compilation 
and linkage in the style of C on modern systems?

Surely, we would like to have fast compilations, but 
why can't the compiler treat that as an automatic
optimisation, rather than a user managed one?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-23  1:49 Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23  3:31 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-10-23  3:39   ` David Brown
2004-10-23  5:00     ` skaller
2004-10-23 21:49       ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:24   ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:33     ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-24  3:00     ` John Prevost
2004-10-24  5:18     ` skaller
2004-10-24 22:52       ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-25 13:21 ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-25 14:25   ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 14:07     ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-26 15:05       ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 17:34         ` skaller [this message]
2004-10-26 20:02           ` [Caml-list] Combined compilation and linking Jon Harrop

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