What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
Yet again, intern season is coming to a close, and so it’s time to look back at what the interns have achieved in their short...
Posts Tagged: ocaml
A solution to the ppx versioning problem
Ppx is a preprocessing system for OCaml where one maps over the OCaml abstract syntax tree (AST) to interpret some special syntax fragments to generate...
By: Jeremie Dimino
Converting a code base from camlp4 to ppx
As with many projects in the OCaml world, at Jane Street we have been working on migrating from camlp4 to ppx. After having developed equivalent...
By: Jeremie Dimino
CPU Registers and OCaml
Even though registers are a low-level CPU concept, having some knowledge about them can help write faster code. Simply put, a CPU register is a...
By: Vladimir Brankov
Faster OCaml to C calls
The official OCaml documentation “Interfacing C with OCaml” doesn’t document some interesting performance features.
By: Vladimir Brankov
What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers?
Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intel machines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it affect OCaml?
By: Vladimir Brankov
Async Parallel
Background
By: Eric Stokes
RWO tidbits: the runtime
This is my favorite tweet about Real World OCaml.
By: Yaron Minsky
The making of Real World OCaml
By: Yaron Minsky
Patch review vs diff review, revisited
I’ve been thinking about code review a lot recently.
By: Yaron Minsky
Hackerschool tutorial at Jane Street
By: Yaron Minsky
