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Continuing the previous foray into file descriptors, and trying to remove Obj.magic both from ocaml-uring’s code itself, and from the recommended way for using it.
There was a flurry of activity on ocaml-multicore/ocaml-uring this month leading to a release (ocaml/opam-repository#28604). ocaml-uring provides bindings to the Linux’s io_uring, which allows batching various syscalls to the kernel for it to execute out-of-order, and in parallel. Its principal use at the moment is for the high-performance Linux backend of Eio.
Today I’m going to cover a very basic topic - conversions between OCaml’s primary numeric types int and float. I guess most of you are wondering if such a basic topic deserves a special treatment, but if you read on I promise that it will be worth it.
Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intelmachines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it affect OCaml?
