KC Sivaramakrishnan CTO @ Tarides

Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects

20 May 2015

Algebraic effects and handlers provide a modular abstraction for expressing effectful computation, allowing the programmer to separate the expression of an effectful computation from its implementation. In this post, I will present an extension to OCaml for programming with linear algebraic effects, and demonstrate its use in expressing concurrency primitives for multicore OCaml. The design and implementation of algebraic effects for multicore OCaml is due to Leo White, Stephen Dolan and the multicore team at OCaml Labs.

Opam Switch to Multicore OCaml

25 Mar 2015

OPAM has a great compiler switch feature that lets you simultaneously host several OCaml installations, each with its own compiler version and a set of installed packages. I wanted to use the power of opam switch for working with the experimental multicore OCaml compiler. The key advantage of doing this is that it lets you easily install packages from the OPAM repository, while sandboxing it from other OCaml installations on your system. The post will show how to create OPAM compiler switch for multicore OCaml.