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From: Berke Durak <berke.durak@exalead.com>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Using dynlink (native code and byte code) for the build system
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:59:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A1E250.8020608@exalead.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801311448.38703.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

Jon Harrop a écrit :
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 14:49:44 Alain Frisch wrote:
>> Berke Durak wrote:
>>> Thank to Alain Frisch's natdynlink, it is now possible to dynamically
>>> load native code plugins.
>> Only on some platforms! Please don't make the availability of exotic
>> features mandatory for the build system to work.
> 
> FWIW, I think natdynlink should be a core feature of OCaml going forwards 
> because it is useful in so many circumstances
> 

I agree.  However such a build system will also work with bytecode, albeit at lower performance,
on platforms not supporting natdynlink.  A build system is also not computationally too intensive,
so it should be OK.

 > not least the performant top-level.

Natdynlink in the toplevel??
-- 
Berke DURAK


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 10:02 Berke Durak
2008-01-31 14:49 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2008-01-31 14:48   ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-31 14:59     ` Berke Durak [this message]
2008-01-31 14:58       ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-31 16:46     ` Alain Frisch
2008-02-01 16:21       ` Jon Harrop

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