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Autofonce, GNU Autotests Revisited

Authors: Fabrice
Date: 2023-06-27
Category: OCaml
Tags: ocaml, tests, gnucobol, autoconf, autofonce, cobol

Since 2022, OCamlPro has been contributing to GnuCOBOL, the only fully open-source compiler for the COBOL language. To speed-up our contributions to the compiler, we developed a new tool, autofonce, to be able to easily run and modify the testsuite of the compiler, originally written as a GNU Autoco... (Read more)

The Growth of the OCaml Distribution

Authors: Fabrice
Date: 2023-01-02
Category: OCaml
Tags: OCaml, compiler

We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gi... (Read more)