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Base images for OxCaml

As @dra27 suggested, I first added support in ocurrent/ocaml-version. I went with the name flambda2, which matched the name in the opam package.

10 Jun 2025

Marc Elvers

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Opam Health Check with OxCaml

Arthur mentioned that it would be great to know which packages build successfully with OxCaml and which don’t.

14 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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Flambda2 Ep. 4: How to write a purely functional compiler

Welcome to a new episode of The Flambda2 Snippets! Today, we will cover key high-level aspects of the algorithm of Flambda2. We will do our best to explain the fundamental design decisions pertaining to the architecture of the compiler. We will touch on how we managed to make a purely functional opt...

19 Feb 2025

OCamlPro

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Flambda2 Ep. 3: Speculative Inlining

Welcome to a new episode of The Flambda2 Snippets! The F2S blog posts aim at gradually introducing the world to the inner-workings of a complex piece of software engineering: The Flambda2 Optimising Compiler for OCaml, a technical marvel born from a 10 year-long effort in Research & Development and ...

09 Aug 2024

OCamlPro

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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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CPS Representation and Foundational Design Decisions in Flambda2

In this first post of the Flambda2 Snippets, we dive into the powerful CPS-based internal representation used within the Flambda2 optimizer, which was one of the main motivation to move on from the former Flambda optimizer. Credit goes to Andrew Kennedy's paper Compiling with Continuations, Continue...

19 Mar 2024

OCamlPro

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Flambda2 Ep. 1: Foundational Design Decisions

Welcome to The Flambda2 Snippets! In this first post of The Flambda2 Snippets, we dive into the powerful CPS-based internal representation used within the Flambda2 optimizer, which was one of the main motivation to move on from the former Flambda optimizer. Credit goes to Andrew Kennedy's paper Comp...

19 Mar 2024

OCamlPro

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The Flambda2 Snippets, Episode 0

At OCamlPro, the main ongoing task on the OCaml Compiler is to improve the high-level optimisation. This is something that we have been doing for quite some time now. Indeed, we are the authors behind the Flambda optimisation pass and today we would like to introduce the series of blog snippets show...

18 Mar 2024

OCamlPro

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Behind the Scenes of the OCaml Optimising Compiler Flambda2: Introduction and Roadmap

Introducing our Flambda2 snippets At OCamlPro, the main ongoing task on the OCaml Compiler is to improve the high-level optimisation. This is something that we have been doing for quite some time now. Indeed, we are the authors behind the Flambda optimisation pass and today we would like to introduc...

18 Mar 2024

OCamlPro

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