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MirageOS is an OCaml ecosystem to construct unikernels, i.e., minimal operating systems. Here, we write about our social and technical…
Composing Schedulers using Effect Handlers Deepali Ande (IIT Madras) KC Sivaramakrishnan (IIT Madras and Tarides) OCaml 5 introduces effect handlers as a mechanism for con- current programming. With effect handlers, concurrency can be expre...
Multicoretests - Parallel Testing Libraries for OCaml 5.0 Jan Midtgaard (Tarides) Olivier Nicole (Tarides) Nicolas Osborne (Tarides) Parallel and concurrent code is notoriously hard to test because of the involved non-determinism, yet it i...
Into the Fire The OCaml ecosystem relies on various resources and infrastructure such as ocaml.org, OCaml Docker images, opam-repo-ci, that…
Introducing the Bindoj library, a datatype-centric generative programming library for real-world programming in OCaml Haochen M. Kotoi-Xie (Kotoi-Xie Consultancy, Inc.) Hirotetsu Hongo (Kotoi-Xie Consultancy, Inc.) Yuta Sato (Kotoi-Xie Consul...
Copying opam switches – it should Just Work™ David Allsopp (Tarides UK) OCaml’s ecosystem centres around compilation from source code, rather than precompiled binaries. The compiler itself is only provided as a source distribution and OCaml’...
Efficient “out of heap” pointers for multicore OCaml Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni (INRIA) This paper reports an experiment with a large pages allocator for the OCaml runtime, with measured performance improvements. A large pages allocator (als...
Highest-performance Stream Processing Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku University, Japan) Tomoaki Kobayashi (Tohoku University) Aggelos Biboudis (Oracle) Nick Palladinos (Nessos Information Technologies, SA) We present the stream processing library ...
