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wxOCaml, camlidl and Class Modules

A few months ago, a memory leak in the Scanf.fscanf function of OCaml’s standard library has been reported on the OCaml mailing list. The following “minimal” example reproduces this misbehavior: Let us see how to identify the origin of the leak and fix it with our OCaml memory profiler. Instal...

13 Apr 2015

OCamlPro

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Building a lower-latency GC

We’ve been doing a bunch of work recently on improving the responsiveness ofOCaml’s garbage collector. I thought it would be worth discussing thesedevelopmen...

10 Apr 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Faster OCaml to C calls

The official OCaml documentation “Interfacing C withOCaml” doesn’tdocument some interesting performance features.

09 Apr 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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First steps in mirage | Drup's thingies

This was long overdue, after a lot of ocsigen-cohttp hacking (duh), I finally started trying mirage!

09 Apr 2015

Gabriel Radanne

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Pearl No.3 - Saddleback Search

This is the 3rd pearl (the saddleback search problem) in the book

31 Mar 2015

Xinuo Chen

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Why GADTs matter for performance

When GADTs (Generalized Algebraic DataTypes) landed inOCaml, I wasn’t particularly happy about it. I assumed that it was the kind ofnonsense you get when you...

30 Mar 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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