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 OAA12453; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:47:02 +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 OAA13386 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:47:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.211]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hADDl0106089 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:47:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from modem-251.beedrill.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.32.251]) by cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AKHoJ-0001RC-Ak for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:46:59 +0000 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:46:57 +0000 (GMT) From: John J Lee X-X-Sender: john@alice To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Executable size? In-Reply-To: <20031113091023.GA5181@iliana> Message-ID: References: <20031112173335.GA32347@redhat.com> <20031112183157.GA16395@iliana> <20031113091023.GA5181@iliana> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sven:01 luther:01 wire:99 hugely:01 linked:01 ocaml:01 nov:01 linking:02 executable:03 executable:03 wrote:03 wrote:03 dynamic:03 data:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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. John ------------------- 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