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Tarides is now a sponsor of the OCaml Software Foundation

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

17 Sep 2020

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Build systems with Andrey Mokhov

16 Sep 2020

Signals and Threads

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Memory allocator showdown

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...

15 Sep 2020

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Programmable hardware with Andy Ray

09 Sep 2020

Signals and Threads

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Irmin: September 2020 update

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

08 Sep 2020

Tarides

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Introducing irmin-pack

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

01 Sep 2020

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Announcing Signals and Threads, a new podcast from Jane Street

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.

31 Aug 2020

Jane Street Tech Blog

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A Declarative Syntax Definition for OCaml

In this talk, we present our work on a syntax definition for the OCaml language in the syntax definition formalism SDF3. SDF3 supports the high-level definition of concrete and abstract syntax through declarative disambiguation and definition of c...

28 Aug 2020

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A Simple State-Machine Framework for Property-Based Testing in OCaml

Since their inception, state-machine frameworks have proven their worth by finding defects in everything from the underlying AUTOSAR components of Volvo cars to digital invoicing systems. These case studies were carried out with Erlang’s commercia...

28 Aug 2020

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AD-OCaml: Algorithmic Differentiation for OCaml

AD-OCaml is a library framework for calculating mathematically exact derivatives and deep power series approximations of almost arbitrary OCaml programs via algorithmic differentiation. Unlike similar frameworks, this includes programs with side e...

28 Aug 2020

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