Blog Post on “The Growth of the OCaml Distribution”

Blog Post on “The Growth of the OCaml Distribution”(ocamlpro.com)

5 points by lefessan 3 years ago | 1 comment

lefessan 3 years ago |

We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gives a survey of our findings...

lefessan 3 years ago |

We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gives a survey of our findings...