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Signing the OPAM repository

NOTE (September 2016): updated proposal from OCaml 2016 workshop is available, including links to prototype implementation. This is an initial proposal on signing the OPAM repository. Comments and discussion are expected on the platform mailing-list. The purpose of this proposal is to enable a secur...

05 Jun 2015

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Reduced Memory Allocations with ocp-memprof

In this blog post, we explain how ocp-memprof helped us identify a piece of code in Alt-Ergo that needed to be improved. Simply put, a function that merges two maps was performing a lot of unnecessary allocations, negatively impacting the garbage collector's activity. A simple patch allowed us to pr...

18 May 2015

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OPAM 1.2.2 Released

OPAM 1.2.2 has just been released. This fixes a few issues over 1.2.1 and brings a couple of improvements, in particular better use of the solver to keep the installation as up-to-date as possible even when the latest version of a package can not be installed. Upgrade from 1.2.1 (or earlier) See the...

07 May 2015

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wxOCaml, camlidl and Class Modules

A few months ago, a memory leak in the Scanf.fscanf function of OCaml’s standard library has been reported on the OCaml mailing list. The following “minimal” example reproduces this misbehavior: Let us see how to identify the origin of the leak and fix it with our OCaml memory profiler. Instal...

13 Apr 2015

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OPAM 1.2.1 Released

OPAM 1.2.1 has just been released. This patch version brings a number of fixes and improvements over 1.2.0, without breaking compatibility. Upgrade from 1.2.0 (or earlier) See the normal installation instructions: you should generally pick up the packages from the same origin as you did for the last...

18 Mar 2015

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Cumulus and ocp-memprof, a love story

In this blog post, we went on the hunt of memory leaks in Cumulus by using our memory profiler: ocp-memprof. Cumulus is a feed aggregator based on Eliom, a framework for programming web sites and client/server web applications, part of the Ocsigen Project. First, run and get the memory snapshots To ...

04 Mar 2015

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Private Release of Alt-Ergo 1.00

altergo logo After the public release of Alt-Ergo 0.99.1 last December, it's time to announce a new major private version (1.00) of our SMT solver. As usual: we freely provide a JavaScript version on Alt-Ergo's website we provide a private access to our internal repositories for academia users and o...

29 Jan 2015

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