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Why GADTs matter for performance

When GADTs (Generalized Algebraic DataTypes) landed inOCaml, I wasn’t particularly happy about it. I assumed that it was the kind ofnonsense you get when you...

30 Mar 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Mini Cloud/Cluster v2.0

Last year I wrote and rewrote a little command line tool for managing my virtualization cluster. Of course I could use OpenStack RDO but OpenStack is a vast box of somewhat working bits and pieces.…

23 Mar 2015

Richard Jones

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A lighter Core

We recently released a version of our open source libraries with a muchanticipatedchange– Async_kernel, the heart of the Async concurrent programming library...

21 Mar 2015

Jane Street Tech Blog

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OPAM 1.2.1 Released

OPAM 1.2.1 has just been released. This patch version brings a number of fixes and improvements over 1.2.0, without breaking compatibility. Upgrade from 1.2.0 (or earlier) See the normal installation instructions: you should generally pick up the packages from the same origin as you did for the last...

18 Mar 2015

OCamlPro

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Binomial Heap

This post presents another functional heap - binomial heap in OCaml. It also describes binomial tree in great details. Diagrams and OCaml code has been supplied....

18 Mar 2015

Xinuo Chen

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Heap - Leftist Tree

This post presents a functional heap - leftist tree in OCaml. It walks through binary heap, list based heap towards leftist tree. OCaml code has been supplied....

13 Mar 2015

Xinuo Chen

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Cumulus and ocp-memprof, a love story

In this blog post, we went on the hunt of memory leaks in Cumulus by using our memory profiler: ocp-memprof. Cumulus is a feed aggregator based on Eliom, a framework for programming web sites and client/server web applications, part of the Ocsigen Project. First, run and get the memory snapshots To ...

04 Mar 2015

OCamlPro

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