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Recently, I have been using my Pi Zero (armv6), which has reminded me that OCaml 5 dropped native 32-bit support, and I wondered what it would take to reinstate it.

While comfort-watching the indomitable Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in The Body in the Library, it occurred to me that Miss Marple would have been a formidable debugger. Since returning from holiday one, two, three weeks ago, I’ve been mostly straightening out and finalising the final Relocatable OCaml PR. A frustrating task, because I know these things will take weeks and have little to show for at the end, so one spends the entire time feeling it should be finished by now. It’s just about there, when this little testsuite failure popped up:

In our first article we mostly discussed the API design of decompress and did not talk too much about the issue of optimizing performance…

For more half-baked ideas, see the ideas tag. If you prefer just to see the code, then it’s here. Chris Siebenmann wrote a couple of interesting articles about C’s null terminated strin…

So how do you use Perlin's Simplex Noise ? By using the GIF encoder , of course! I generated the test image shown in the last post: with a...

Also, quasicrystals . Have you ever found yourself wanting to do generated animations but didn't know how to visualize them? Since I couldn'...