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Memory allocator showdown
Since version 4.10, OCaml offers a new best-fit memory allocatoralongside its existing default, the next-fit allocator. At JaneStreet, we’ve seen a big impro...
09 Sep 2020
Irmin: September 2020 update
This post will survey the latest design decisions and performance improvements made to irmin-pack, the Irmin storage backend used by Tezos…
09 Sep 2020
Introducing irmin-pack
irmin-pack is an Irmin storage backend that we developed over the last year specifically to meet the Tezos use-case. Tezos nodes were…
09 Sep 2020
Announcing Signals and Threads, a new podcast from Jane Street
I’m excited (and slightly terrified) to announce that Jane Street isreleasing a new podcast, called Signals andThreads, and I’m going to be thehost.
08 Aug 2020
What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
It’s been an unusual internship season.
08 Aug 2020
Fuzzing OCamlFormat with AFL and Crowbar
AFL (and fuzzing in general) is often used to find bugs in low-level code like parsers, but it also works very well to find bugs in high…
08 Aug 2020
One and a half years of ReasonML in production
The first Reason application at Ahrefs went online on January 31, 2019. Since then, many more applications have been either rewritten in…
07 Jul 2020
The Jane Street Interview Process — 2020 Edition
We’re busy preparing for our software engineering fall hiringseason. Over the years we’vedone our best to make our interview process more transparent tocandi...
07 Jul 2020
Traceroute
06 Jun 2020
Really low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles
At Jane Street, we have some experience using FPGAs for low-latencysystems–FPGAs are programmable hardware where you get the speed of anapplication-specific ...
06 Jun 2020
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News
opam 2.1.2 release
Release of opam 2.1.2
12 Dec 2021
OCaml Multicore - December 2021 and the Big PR
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
12 Dec 2021
opam releases: 2.0.10, 2.1.1, & opam depext 1.2!
Release announcement for opam 2.0.10, opam 2.1.1 and opam depext 1.2
11 Nov 2021
OCaml Multicore - November 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
11 Nov 2021
OCaml Compiler - October 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
10 Oct 2021
OCaml Multicore - October 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
10 Oct 2021
OCaml Compiler - June-September 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
09 Sep 2021
OCaml Multicore - September 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
09 Sep 2021
opam 2.1.0 is released!
Release announcement for opam 2.1.0
08 Aug 2021
opam 2.0.9 release
Release announcement for OPAM 2.0.9
08 Aug 2021
OCaml Multicore - August 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
08 Aug 2021
OCaml Multicore - July 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
07 Jul 2021
opam 2.1.0~rc2 released
Release announcement for opam 2.1.0~rv2
06 Jun 2021
OCaml Multicore - June 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
06 Jun 2021
OCaml Compiler - May 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
05 May 2021
OCaml Multicore - May 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
05 May 2021
OCaml Compiler - before May 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Compiler team.
04 Apr 2021
OCaml Multicore - April 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
04 Apr 2021
OCaml Multicore - March 2021
Monthly update from the OCaml Multicore team.
03 Mar 2021
opam 2.1.0~beta4 released
Release announcement for opam 2.1.0~beta4
02 Feb 2021