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Reusing Buffers in Multicore OCaml

OCaml is a pragmatic functional language: type-level tricks for safe code, careful buffer allocation for fast code. A scratch buffer in ocaml-wire raced under OCaml 5 domains; memtrace and ThreadSanitizer show both sides.

24 Jul 2026

Thomas Gazagnaire

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Petrol: embedding a type-safe SQL API in OCaml using GADTs

- Note taken on [2023-03-31 Fri 18:38] \\ Completed section on GADT based encoding CLOCK: [2023-03-31 Fri 17:10]-[2023-03-31 Fri 18:38] > 1:28 - Note taken on [2023-03-29 Wed 19:43] \\ - Completed section on a macro based approach CLOCK: [2023-03-29 Wed 18:00]-[2023-03-29 Wed 19:42] > 1:42 CLOCK: [2…

23 Mar 2023

Kiran Gopinathan

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Preprocessing in OCaml (using Ppxlib)

Extension points are a functionality provided by the OCaml ecosystem to allow developers to define custom semantics for OCaml syntax in specific delimited contexts. While this means that extension-point based libraries can not introduce arbitrary new syntax (restricting some of the expressivity of s…

09 Dec 2019

Kiran Gopinathan

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What's new for Alt-Ergo in 2018? Here is a recap!

After the hard work done on the integration of floating-point arithmetic reasoning two years ago, 2018 is the year of polymorphic SMT2 support and efficient SAT solving for Alt-Ergo. In this post, we recap the main novelties last year, and we announce the first Alt-Ergo Users’ Club meeting. An SMT...

11 Feb 2019

OCamlPro

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