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Memthol: exploring program profiling

Memthol is a visualizer and analyzer for program profiling. It works on memory dumps containing information about the size and (de)allocation date of part of the allocations performed by some execution of a program. For information regarding building memthol, features, browser compatibility… refer...

01 Dec 2020

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Rehabilitating Packs using Functors and Recursivity, part 2.

This blog post and the previous one about functor packs covers two RFCs currently developed by OCamlPro and Jane Street. We previously introduced functor packs, a new feature adding the possiblity to compile packs as functors, allowing the user to implement functors as multiple source files or even ...

30 Sep 2020

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Rehabilitating Packs using Functors and Recursivity, part 1.

OCamlPro has a long history of dedicated efforts to support the development of the OCaml compiler, through sponsorship or direct contributions from Flambda Team. An important one is the Flambda intermediate representation designed for optimizations, and in the future its next iteration Flambda 2. Th...

24 Sep 2020

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A Dune Love story: From Liquidity to Love

By OCamlPro & Origin Labs Writing smart contacts may often be a burdensome task, as you need to learn a new language for each blockchain you target. In the Dune Network team, we are willing to provide as many possibilities as possible for developers to thrive in an accessible and secure framework. T...

09 Jun 2020

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[Interview] Sylvain Conchon joins OCamlPro

On April 2020, Sylvain Conchon joined the OCamlPro team as our Chief Scientific Officer on Formal Methods. Sylvain is a professor at University Paris-Saclay, he has also been teaching OCaml in universities for about 20 years. He is the co-author of Apprendre à programmer avec OCaml with Jean-Christ...

06 Jun 2020

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[Interview] Sylvain Conchon rejoint OCamlPro

Sylvain Conchon vient de rejoindre OCamlPro en tant que Chief Scientific Officer Méthodes Formelles. Professeur à l’Université Paris-Saclay, il travaille dans le domaine de la démonstration automatique pour la preuve de programmes et le model checking pour systèmes paramétrés. Il est aussi ...

05 Jun 2020

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Tutoriel Format

Article écrit par Mattias. Le module Format d’OCaml est un module extrêmement puissant mais malheureusement très mal utilisé. Il combine notamment deux éléments distincts : les boîtes d’impression élégante les tags sémantiques Le présent article vise à démystifier une grande partie ...

01 Jun 2020

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A Solidity parser in OCaml with Menhir

This article is cross-posted on Origin Labs’ Dune Network blog We are happy to announce the first release of our Solidity parser, written in OCaml using Menhir. This is a joint effort with Origin Labs, the company dedicated to blockchain challenges, to implement a full interpreter for the Solidity...

19 May 2020

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opam 2.1.0 alpha is here!

We are happy to announce a alpha for opam 2.1.0, one year and a half in the making after the release of 2.0.0. Many new features made it in (see the complete changelog or release note for the details), but here are a few highlights of this release. Release highlights The two following features have ...

22 Apr 2020

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opam 2.0.7 release

We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.7. This new version contains backported small fixes: Escape Windows paths on manpages [#4129 @AltGr @rjbou] Fix opam installer opam file [#4058 @rjbou] Fix various warnings [#4132 @rjbou @AltGr - fix #4100] Fix dune 2.5.0 promote-install-files...

21 Apr 2020

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