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[OCaML'23] Buck2 for OCaml Users & Developers

[OCaML'23] Buck2 for OCaml Users & Developers Shayne Fletcher, Neil Mitchell Buck2 is an open-source large scale build system used by thousands of developers at Meta every day. Buck2 can be used to build OCaml with some useful advantages over al...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Building a lock-free STM for OCaml

[OCaML'23] Building a lock-free STM for OCaml Vesa Karvonen, Bartosz Modelski, Carine Morel, Thomas Leonard, KC Sivaramakrishnan, YSS Narasimha Naidu, Sudha Parimala The kcas library was originally developed to provide a primitive atomic lock-fr...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Efficient OCaml compilation with Flambda 2

[OCaML'23] Efficient OCaml compilation with Flambda 2 Pierre Chambart, Vincent LAVIRON, Mark Shinwell Flambda 2 is an IR and optimisation pass for OCaml centred around inlining. We discuss the engineering constraints that shaped it and the overa...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Eio 1.0 – Effects-based IO for OCaml 5

[OCaML'23] Eio 1.0 – Effects-based IO for OCaml 5 Thomas Leonard, Patrick Ferris, Christiano Haesbaert, Lucas Pluvinage, Vesa Karvonen, Sudha Parimala, KC Sivaramakrishnan, Vincent Balat, Anil Madhavapeddy Eio provides an effects-based direct-st...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Less Power for More Learning: Restricting OCaml Features for Effective Teaching

[OCaML'23] Less Power for More Learning: Restricting OCaml Features for Effective Teaching Max Lang, Nico Petzendorfer We present a framework for sandboxing and restricting features of the OCaml programming language to effectively automate the g...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] MetaOCaml Theory and Implementation

[OCaML'23] MetaOCaml Theory and Implementation Oleg Kiselyov Quasi-quotation (or, code templates) has long been used as a convenient tool for code generation, commonly implemented as a pre-processing/translation into code-generation combinators....

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Modern DSL compiler architecture in OCaml our experience with Catala

[OCaML'23] Modern DSL compiler architecture in OCaml our experience with Catala Louis Gesbert, Denis Merigoux In this presentation, we intend to show a state-of-the-art DSL implementation in OCaml, with concrete examples and experience reports. ...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Osiris: an Iris-based program logic for OCaml

[OCaML'23] Osiris: an Iris-based program logic for OCaml Arnaud Daby-Seesaram, François Pottier, Armaël Guéneau Osiris is a project that aims to help OCaml developers verify their code using Separation Logic. The project is still young: we curre...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Owi: an interpreter and a toolkit for WebAssembly written in OCaml

[OCaML'23] Owi: an interpreter and a toolkit for WebAssembly written in OCaml Léo Andrès, Pierre Chambart, Eric Patrizio, Dario Pinto This presentation introduces Owi, an OCaml-based interpreter and toolkit for WebAssembly (Wasm). Owi aims to pr...

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