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Jane Street have been working for a few years on a whole suite of extensions to OCaml, many of which they’ve both blogged and published about. I did some hacking last year getting a version of that running on Windows, which I really must resurrect. But today I actually had a go at doing a tiny something with its features!
We often say that ZFS is an excellent replicated file system, but not the best local filesystem. This led me to think that if we run zfs send on one machine, we might want to write that out as a different filesystem. Is that even possible?
Don’t let the road to perfect intentions be the enemy of the good. Or some other mixed metaphor. Anyhow, an attempt at musing on the week so that musing on musings may be slightly easier.
The moves of registry.ci.dev, opam-repo-ci, and get.dune.build have followed the template of OCaml-CI. Notable differences have been that I have hosted get.dune.build in a VM, as the services required very little disk space or CPU/RAM. For opam-repo-ci, the rsync was pretty slow, so I tried running multiple instances using GNU parallel with marginal gains.
