Reply To: The Compiler

The Mill members are load-module (.exe) compatible, but not bitwise encoding compatible. The load module contains member-independent genAsm and a cache of previous specializations for particular members. If you run that program on a member for which there is no binary in the cache then the loader specializes it to the target, as well as doing the dynamic linking, relocation, and the rest of what loaders do, and also writes the new specialized code back to the load module cache so it doesn’t have to be specialized again.

We expect that specialization will be a routine part of the install process for most software, but you can omit the install step and just get the specialization the first time you run it. Unless you are debugging the specializer you won’t need to look at the actual binary; this is essentially the same way that Java and other systems that distribute machine-independent code work.