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Reusing Buffers in Multicore OCaml

OCaml is a pragmatic functional language: type-level tricks for safe code, careful buffer allocation for fast code. A scratch buffer in ocaml-wire raced under OCaml 5 domains; memtrace and ThreadSanitizer show both sides.

24 Jul 2026

Thomas Gazagnaire

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How big is Europe?

Tessera produces global land-cover embeddings at 0.1-degree resolution, roughly 11 km square at the equator. For each year and each grid tile, there is a directory containing NumPy files of the embeddings.

21 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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OCaml 5 native 32-bit backends: i386 and PPC32

Following on from the Arm32 multicore backend, I have now ported the remaining two 32-bit architectures to OCaml 5 with multicore support: i386 and PowerPC 32-bit (PPC32).

03 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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What would make OCaml serverless ready?

What role does programming language choice make when targeting serverless environments, and how does OCaml stack up against popular serverless development languages? What would it take to make OCaml your primary development language for serverless?

08 Jan 2026

Chris Armstrong

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Multi Domain OCaml on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Microcontroller

Running OCaml 5 with multicore support on bare-metal Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (RP2350, ARM Cortex-M33).

31 Dec 2025

Marc Elvers

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OCaml 5.4 native Arm32 branch

Recently, I have been using my Pi Zero (armv6), which has reminded me that OCaml 5 dropped native 32-bit support, and I wondered what it would take to reinstate it.

27 Nov 2025

Marc Elvers

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