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OPAM 1.1.0 is ready, and we are shipping a release candidate for packagers and all interested to try it out. This version features several bug-fixes over the September beta release, and quite a few stability and usability improvements. Thanks to all beta-testers who have taken the time to file repor...

As announced in a previous post, I joined OCamlPro at the beginning of September and I started working on Alt-Ergo. Here is a report presenting the tool and the work we have done during the two last months. Alt-Ergo at a Glance Alt-Ergo is an open source automatic theorem prover based on SMT technol...

We are very happy to announce the beta release of OPAM version 1.1.0! OPAM is a source-based package manager for OCaml. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow which. OPAM is edited and maintained by OCamlPro, wi...

Here is a short report on the different projects we have been working on in August. News from OCamlPro Compiler Optimizations After our reports on better inlining have raised big expectations, we have been working hard on fixing the few remaining bugs. An enhanced alias/constant analysis was added, ...

Once again, here is the summary of our activities for last month. The highlight this month is the release of ocaml-top, an interactive editor for education which works well under Windows and that we hope professors all around the world will use to teach OCaml to their students. We are also continuyi...

As announced some time ago, I am working on a new intermediate language within the OCaml compiler to improve its inlining strategy. After some time of bug squashing, I prepared a testable version of the patchset, available either on Github (branch flambda_experiments), or through OPAM, in the follow...

It is time to give a brief summary of our recent activities. As usual, our contributions were focused on three main objectives: make the OCaml compiler faster and easier to use; make the OCaml developers more efficient by releasing new development tools and improving editor supports; organize and pa...

Doing the compiler's work Working at OCamlPro may have some drawbacks. I spend a lot of time hacking the OCaml compiler. Hence when I write some code, I have a good glimpse of what the generated assembly will look like. This is nice when I want to write performance sensitive code, but as I usually w...

This post aims at summarizing the activities of OCamlPro for the past month. As usual, we worked in three main areas: the OCaml toolchain, development tools for OCaml and R&D projects. The toolchain Our multi-runtime implementation of OCaml had gained stability. Luca fixed a lot of low-level bugs in...

Last week, I was bored doing some paperwork, so I decided to hack a little to relieve my mind... Looking for a GUI Framework for OCaml Beginners Some time ago, at OCamlPro, we had discussed the fact that OCaml was lacking more GUI frameworks. Lablgtk is powerful, but I don’t like it (and I expect ...