[MLton-user] Feature request

[Matthew Fluet]

I can't add much more than Tom's suggestion:  -verbose 1  will show the 
major compiler passes.  Admittedly, there isn't much fine grained timing 
for the x86 backend phases, though a good rule of thumb is that it usually 
takes about as much time as the pre-codegen phases.

I you can be less "fluffy" in what kind of feedback would be useful, let 
us know.

> Using -verbose 1 gives you more feedback on progress (a few "landmarks"), 
> which is what I do for longer compiles. But I would like to see this too, if 
> possible, since we spend a lot of time waiting for mlton to compile our 
> stuff.
>
> - Tom
>
>> This is kind of fluffy, but having stared at mlton compiling HaMLeT for an 
>> undetermined period of time, I was thinking it might be kind of nice to 
>> have some kind of progress meter.  Would this be particularly difficult to 
>> implement?