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 XAA15125; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:54:51 +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 XAA15100 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:54:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from moby.atcorp.com (moby.atcorp.com [204.72.172.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hACMsi120932 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:54:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from atcorp.com (seahorse.atcorp.com [204.72.172.13]) by moby.atcorp.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id hACMutZ03043; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:56:55 -0600 Message-ID: <3FB2B9FB.1070309@atcorp.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:53:47 -0600 From: Eric Dahlman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Hurt CC: John J Lee , Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Executable size? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 statically:01 adobe:99 fourteen:99 snow:99 eagerly:01 1200:99 blazing:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 binary:02 transmission:97 string:03 executable:03 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Brian Hurt wrote: > Ocaml uses at least some of these libraries itself (although not via > printf- I was wrong about that). So, to be fair, you need to statically > link them into Ocaml binary as well- increasing it's size by half a > megabyte or so as well. Who said anything about being fair ;-) I just was trying to point out the problems with the statement that C/C++ didn't need a library. > As a side note, I just finished downloading a ~10M compressed program > (Adobe Acrobat reader) over a 56K baud modem. Took about 45 minutes or > so. Modems teach you to be patient. If not, I'll trot out long winded, > boring stores about how as a kid I was forced to use a 300 baud modem to > connect to the internet, through fourteen feet of snow, up hill, both > ways! :-) > > (eagerly awaiting the IP Transmission over string and 2 tin cans stories > from the good old days) Well you have me beat I started out with 1200 baud of blazing speed. -Eric ------------------- 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