Compile (and use) eliomdep, eliomc, eliomopt in native code about eliom HOT 8 CLOSED

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What would be the performances improvements here ? eliom{c,opt,dep} uses ocamlfind which search for the best compiler available (ocamlc.opt if available for example).

I you are really sure that it can improves something, then can you do some benchmarks ?

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I didn't kwow that. Since our eliom app seems to compile slowly as hell, I thought this could improve something… But I'm perhaps mistaken indeed.

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That's normal since we make extensive use of camlp4. For example, in Cumulus I removed camlp4 (lwt.syntax, macaque.syntax) for half of the files and the compilation time gained 10 seconds (~50 before, ~40 now).
Now we loose a lot of time in js_of_ocaml (~9 seconds) [1] and for the .eliom file (~8 seconds).

[1]: The performances decreased a lot after the optimizations patches but it's ok.

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you can gain a lot by using native camlp4 syntax extensions, but it's a bit of a mess to setup

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This still matter on slow platform, i.e. ARM. This is still something we should have.

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native versions of eliom tools are now compiled and installed.

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Cheers, thanks!

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