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New Team Members We are pleased to welcome three new members in our OCamlPro team since the beginning of November: Benjamin Canou started working at OCamlPro on the Richelieu project, an effort to bring better safety and performance to the Scilab language. He is in charge of a type inference algorit...

After a while staged as RC, we are proud to announce the final release of OPAM 1.1.0! Thanks again to those who have helped testing and fixing the last few issues. Important note The repository format has been improved with incompatible new features; to account for this, the new repository is now ho...

Here is a short report of our activities in September-October 2013. OCamlPro at OCaml’2013 in Boston We were very happy to participate to OCaml’2013, in Boston. The event was a great success, with a lot of interesting talks and many participants. It was a nice opportunity for us to present some ...

OPAM 1.1.0 is ready, and we are shipping a release candidate for packagers and all interested to try it out. This version features several bug-fixes over the September beta release, and quite a few stability and usability improvements. Thanks to all beta-testers who have taken the time to file repor...

As announced in a previous post, I joined OCamlPro at the beginning of September and I started working on Alt-Ergo. Here is a report presenting the tool and the work we have done during the two last months. Alt-Ergo at a Glance Alt-Ergo is an open source automatic theorem prover based on SMT technol...

We are very happy to announce the beta release of OPAM version 1.1.0! OPAM is a source-based package manager for OCaml. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow which. OPAM is edited and maintained by OCamlPro, wi...

Here is a short report on the different projects we have been working on in August. News from OCamlPro Compiler Optimizations After our reports on better inlining have raised big expectations, we have been working hard on fixing the few remaining bugs. An enhanced alias/constant analysis was added, ...

Once again, here is the summary of our activities for last month. The highlight this month is the release of ocaml-top, an interactive editor for education which works well under Windows and that we hope professors all around the world will use to teach OCaml to their students. We are also continuyi...

As announced some time ago, I am working on a new intermediate language within the OCaml compiler to improve its inlining strategy. After some time of bug squashing, I prepared a testable version of the patchset, available either on Github (branch flambda_experiments), or through OPAM, in the follow...

It is time to give a brief summary of our recent activities. As usual, our contributions were focused on three main objectives: make the OCaml compiler faster and easier to use; make the OCaml developers more efficient by releasing new development tools and improving editor supports; organize and pa...