WIP

Author: vouillon

CHANGES.md

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 ## Features/Changes
 * Misc: bump min ocaml version to 4.08
 * Misc: remove some old runtime files to support some external libs
-* Effects: improved CPS transform, resulting in lower compilation time and smaller generated code
+* Effects: partial CPS transformation, resulting in much better performances, lower compilation time and smaller generated code
 * Compiler: separate compilation can now drops unused units when linking (similar to ocamlc). (#1378)
   Feature is disabled by default while dune rules are being fixed. Enable with --enable=auto-link.
 * Compiler: specialize string to js-string conversion for all valid utf8 strings (previously just ascii)

manual/files/performances/size-bzip2-effects.png

@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@ Exception handling is faster ({{{boyer}}}).
 <<a_img src="performances/size-bzip2-effects.png" | Relative size (compressed with bzip2) >>
 <<a_img src="performances/time-effects.png" | Relative execution times >>
 
+~20% larger  (< 1%  when compressed with bzip2)
+
+45% larger on Lwt code  (6.5%  when compressed)