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Dead code elimination dead end: OCaml doesn't tree-shake

My (unsuccessful) investigation into removing unused code from the compiled output of OCaml, including all the web archeology and deep-dive into how native binaries are formed.

23 Oct 2024

Chris Armstrong

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Flambda2 Ep. 2: Loopifying Tail-Recursive Functions

Welcome to a new episode of The Flambda2 Snippets! Today's topic is Loopify, one of Flambda2's many optimisation algorithms which specifically deals with optimising both purely tail-recursive and/or functions annotated with the [@@loop] attribute in OCaml. A lazy explanation for its utility would be...

07 May 2024

OCamlPro

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OCaml Backtraces on Uncaught Exceptions

Uncaught exception: Not_found This blog post probably won't teach anything new to OCaml veterans; but for the others, you might be glad to learn that this very basic, yet surprisingly little-known feature of OCaml will give you backtraces with source file positions on any uncaught exception. Since i...

25 Apr 2024

OCamlPro

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