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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] from oasis to obuild (original subject was Re:
 Accelerating compilation)

On 9/30/2013 11:13 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> OASIS runs every single build command through ocamlfind.  Moving that
> to the configure phase gives a big speedup for almost any project
> with a non-trivial number of source files.

Has someone investigated the overhead induced by ocamlfind?  Is it about 
the extra process, parsing the META files, or something else?

Since both ocamlfind and the compiler come in the form of a library 
(findlib / compilerlib),  it should not be too difficult to merge them 
into a single executable.  If parsing the META files takes time, a cache 
mechanism in ocamlfind/findlib could help (maybe).

But anyway, doing the library resolution at configure time sounds like a 
good idea!

-- Alain