From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA15294; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:28:05 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15157 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:28:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from mwinf0202.wanadoo.fr (smtp2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.29]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hADES3108441 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:28:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from iliana (AStrasbourg-206-1-6-42.w80-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.14.69.42]) by mwinf0202.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1AACAA4000C7; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:28:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKIS4-0002W2-00; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:28:04 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:28:04 +0100 To: John J Lee Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Executable size? Message-ID: <20031113142804.GA9650@iliana> References: <20031112173335.GA32347@redhat.com> <20031112183157.GA16395@iliana> <20031113091023.GA5181@iliana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Sven Luther X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 wire:99 hugely:01 dlls:01 linked:01 ocaml:01 nov:01 nov:01 linking:02 executable:03 executable:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:46:57PM +0000, John J Lee wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > [...John wrote:] > > > to me how it's linked. The problem is minimising the total data to be > > > transferred over the wire, including any shared libraries. > > > > Well, this is because you ship only one ocaml program. But the user > > wanting to run many of those will hugely benefit from dynamic linking. > [...] > > Sure, but in the Windows world, it's often the case that the user is > running only one executable from one software developer. Which is why windows has DLLs, no ? Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- 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