The OCaml Planet

The ever-widening availability of FPGAs has opened the door to solving a broad set of performance-critical problems in hardware. In this episode, Ron speaks with Andy Ray, who leads Jane Street’s hardware design team. Andy has a long career prior to Jane Street shipping hardware designs for things like modems and video codecs. That work led him to create Hardcaml, a domain-specific language for expressing hardware designs. Ron and Andy talk about the current state-of-the-art in hardware tooling, the economics of FPGAs, and how the process of designing hardware can be improved by applying lessons from software engineering. Hardcaml itself is open-source software available on Github, along with a collection of associated libraries and tools. Andy has also given a talk on Hardcaml called OCaml All The Way Down, and has a post on Jane Street's blog about some of the testing techniques used with Hardcaml. You can find the transcript for this episode along with links to related work at signalsandthreads.com.

The ever-widening availability of FPGAs has opened the door to solving a broad set of performance-critical problems in hardware. In this episode, Ron speaks with Andy Ray, who leads Jane Street’s hardware design team. Andy has a long career prior to Jane Street shipping hardware designs for things like modems and video codecs. That work led him to create Hardcaml, a domain-specific language for expressing hardware designs. Ron and Andy talk about the current state-of-the-art in hardware tooling, the economics of FPGAs, and how the process of designing hardware can be improved by applying lessons from software engineering. Hardcaml itself is open-source software available on Github, along with a collection of associated libraries and tools. Andy has also given a talk on Hardcaml called OCaml All The Way Down, and has a post on Jane Street's blog about some of the testing techniques used with Hardcaml. You can find the transcript for this episode along with links to related work at signalsandthreads.com.

Tarides is pleased to provide support for the OCaml Software Foundation, a non-profit foundation hosted by the Inria Foundation. The OCaml…

Since version 4.10, OCaml offers a new best-fit memory allocatoralongside its existing default, the next-fit allocator. At JaneStreet, we’ve seen a big impro...

This post will survey the latest design decisions and performance improvements made to irmin-pack, the Irmin storage backend used by Tezos…

irmin-pack is an Irmin storage backend that we developed over the last year specifically to meet the Tezos use-case. Tezos nodes were…

I’m excited (and slightly terrified) to announce that Jane Street isreleasing a new podcast, called Signals andThreads, and I’m going to be thehost.