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Signing the OPAM repository

NOTE (September 2016): updated proposal from OCaml 2016 workshop is available, including links to prototype implementation. This is an initial proposal on signing the OPAM repository. Comments and discussion are expected on the platform mailing-list. The purpose of this proposal is to enable a secur...

05 Jun 2015

OCamlPro

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On the book « More OCaml »

Excellent sequel to « OCaml from the very Beginning »

23 May 2015

Daniel Bünzli

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Reduced Memory Allocations with ocp-memprof

In this blog post, we explain how ocp-memprof helped us identify a piece of code in Alt-Ergo that needed to be improved. Simply put, a function that merges two maps was performing a lot of unnecessary allocations, negatively impacting the garbage collector's activity. A simple patch allowed us to pr...

18 May 2015

OCamlPro

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OPAM 1.2.2 Released

OPAM 1.2.2 has just been released. This fixes a few issues over 1.2.1 and brings a couple of improvements, in particular better use of the solver to keep the installation as up-to-date as possible even when the latest version of a package can not be installed. Upgrade from 1.2.1 (or earlier) See the...

07 May 2015

OCamlPro

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