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Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.

Jane Street have been working for a few years on a whole suite of extensions to OCaml, many of which they’ve both blogged and published about. I did some hacking last year getting a version of that running on Windows, which I really must resurrect. But today I actually had a go at doing a tiny something with its features!

Even though registers are a low-level CPU concept, having some knowledge aboutthem can help write faster code. Simply put, a CPU register is a storage for as...

Lately I have been interviewing for jobs, so doing a lot of whiteboard programming, and binary heaps keep arising in the solutions to these...