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[OCaML'23] Parallel Sequences in Multicore OCaml

[OCaML'23] Parallel Sequences in Multicore OCaml Andrew Tao I present my implementation of a parallel sequences abstraction that utilizes the support for shared memory parallelism in the new OCaml 5.0.0 multicore runtime. This abstraction allows...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] State of the OCaml Platform 2023

[OCaML'23] State of the OCaml Platform 2023 Thibaut Mattio, Anil Madhavapeddy, Thomas Gazagnaire, David Allsopp This paper reflects on a decade of progress and developments within the OCaml Platform, from its inception in 2013 with the release o...

01 Dec 2023

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[OCaML'23] Targeted Static Analysis for OCaml C Stubs: Eliminating gremlins from the code

[OCaML'23] Targeted Static Analysis for OCaml C Stubs: Eliminating gremlins from the code Edwin Török Migration to OCaml 5 requires updating a lot of C bindings due to the removal of naked pointer support. Writing OCaml user-defined primitives i...

01 Dec 2023

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Unix Module Considered Harmful

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

29 Nov 2023

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