May 05, 2015 | 4 min read

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

Apr 09, 2015 | 1 min read

Faster OCaml to C calls

The official OCaml documentation “Interfacing C with OCaml” doesn’t document some interesting performance features.

By: Vladimir Brankov

Sep 29, 2014 | 2 min read

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