## MLton 20241230+git20251029+dfsg-5

# RunningOnHPPA

MLton runs fine on the HPPA architecture.

## Notes

- When compiling for HPPA, MLton targets the 32-bit HPPA architecture.

- When compiling for HPPA, MLton doesn’t support native code generation (`-codegen native`). Hence, performance is not as good as it might be and compile times are longer. Also, the quality of code generated by `gcc` is important. By default, MLton calls `gcc -O1`. You can change this by calling MLton with `-cc-opt -O2`.

- When compiling for HPPA, MLton uses `-align 8` by default. While this speeds up reals, it also may increase object sizes. If your program does not make significant use of reals, you might see a speedup with `-align 4`.