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In the last few years, we’ve spent more and more effort working on developertools, to the point where we now have a tools-and-compilers group devoted to thea...

In my previous post I wrote about Flambda, which is the singlebiggest feature coming to OCaml in this release. In this post, I’ll review theother features of...

OCaml 4.03 is branched and a first release candidate is imminent, so it seemslike a good time to take stock of what’s coming.

As announced some time ago, I am working on a new intermediate language within the OCaml compiler to improve its inlining strategy. After some time of bug squashing, I prepared a testable version of the patchset, available either on Github (branch flambda_experiments), or through OPAM, in the follow...

Doing the compiler's work Working at OCamlPro may have some drawbacks. I spend a lot of time hacking the OCaml compiler. Hence when I write some code, I have a good glimpse of what the generated assembly will look like. This is nice when I want to write performance sensitive code, but as I usually w...

When you are beginning in a new programming language, it is sometimes helpful to have an overview of the documentation, that you can pin on your wall and easily have a look at it while you are programming. Since we couldn’t find such Cheat Sheets, we decided to start writting our own cheat sheets ...

You will need OCaml 3.11.2 installed on a i686 linux computer. The archive contains: libcamlrun-linux-i686.a ocamlrun-linux-i686 Makefile README The Makefile has two targets: sudo make install will save /usr/bin/ocamlrun and /usr/lib/ocaml/libcamlrun.a in the current directory and replace them with ...

The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries - Issues · ocaml/ocaml