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When you recursively scan a massive directory tree, would you use Sys.readdir or Unix.readdir? My inclination is that Sys.readdir feels more convenient to use, and thus the lower-level Unix.readdir would have the performance edge. Is it significant enough to bother with?
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...
Recently I was working on a socket pool for a new scheduler for OCaml 5 (multicore baby!) and I ran into a strange issue. This new socket pool works by spinning up a series of lightweight processes to accept connections. Every one of those will wait for a client to
