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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Accelerating compilation

On 09/09/2013 05:25 PM, Alain Frisch wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 06:30 PM, Xavier Leroy wrote:
>> - Make sure the .opt compilers (ocamlc.opt, ocamlopt.opt) are
>>    installed.  They are significantly faster than their non-.opt
>>    counterparts, and some Linux distros package the .opt compilers
>>    separately and don't install them by default.
>
> Shouldn't we change the official installation procedure (from sources),
> so that the .opt compilers are installed as "ocamlc" and "ocamlopt" (not
> "ocamlc.opt", "ocamlopt.opt") when they are available?  And suggest to
> do the same for distribution packages?   It would make the life of other
> projects easier if they could just call "ocamlc" without having to check
> if "ocamlc.opt" is available or not.

I vote for, especially if ocamldoc is not forgotten in the process
(its .opt version is 6 times faster on batteries' ocamldoc).