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xic
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How many lines of code does a compiler contain?
I cloc'd two compilers for xic, compilers written by cornell students for a compilers class which compile a toy C-like language down to assembly, possibly with some extensions. One compiler was about 11k sloc, the other about 32k. Both compilers are written mainly in OCaml, which is a terse language that is pretty optimal for compiler development, but have some java code in them as well. I think these are good examples of mostly minimal compilers which compile a C-like down to asm, though they are very rudimentary compared to more serious projects. I want to emphasize that this is not very meaningful without more details about what you are looking to know.
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What is an example of a good, modern OCaml codebase that I can learn from?
Here's a compiler for a C-like language written in OCaml (note: I am not one of the authors though I did take the class). Despite it being a college project I think it shows very clean design and particularly good use of preprocessors. All of the details for the language and stuff is linked at the bottom. It's a relatively small codebase of course but I think this is good educationally.
ocaml
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Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
> OCaml’s configure script is also “normal”
If that’s this OCaml, it has a configure.ac file in the root directory, which looks suspicious for an Autotools-free package: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
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The Return of the Frame Pointers
You probably already know, but with OCaml 5 the only way to get flamegraphs working is to either:
* use framepointers [1]
* use LBR (but LBR has a limited depth, and may not work on on all CPUs, I'm assuming due to bugs in perf)
* implement some deep changes in how perf works to handle the 2 stacks in OCaml (I don't even know if this would be possible), or write/adapt some eBPF code to do it
OCaml 5 has a separate stack for OCaml code and C code, and although GDB can link them based on DWARF info, perf DWARF call-graphs cannot (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/12563#issuecomment-193...)
If you need more evidence to keep it enabled in future releases, you can use OCaml 5 as an example (unfortunately there aren't many OCaml applications, so that may not carry too much weight on its own).
[1]: I haven't actually realised that Fedora39 has already enabled FP by default, nice! (I still do most of my day-to-day profiling on an ~CentOS 7 system with 'perf --call-graph dwarf', I was aware that there was a discussion to enable FP by default, but haven't noticed it has actually been done already)
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Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
11. OCaml - $91,026
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OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions
> It partially helps since it forces you to have types where they matters most: exported functions
But the problém the OP has is not knowing the types when reading the source (in the .ml file).
> How would it feels like to use list if only https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/stdlib/list.ml was available,
If the signature where in the source file (which you can do in OCaml too), there would be no problem - which is what all the other (for some definition of "other") languages except C and C++ (even Fortran) do.
No, really, I can't see a single advantage of separate .mli files at all. The real problém is that the documentation is often worse too, as the .mli is autogenerated and documented afterwards - and now changes made later in the sources need to be documented in the mli too, so anything that doesn't change the type often gets lost. The same happens in C and C++ with header files.
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Bringing more sweetness to ruby with sorbet types 🍦
If you have been in the Ruby community for the past couple of years, it's possible that you're not a super fan of types or that this concept never passed through your mind, and that's totally cool. I myself love the dynamic and meta-programming nature of Ruby, and honestly, by the time of this article's writing, we aren't on the level of OCaml for type checking and inference, but still, there are a couple of nice things that types with sorbet bring to the table:
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What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (2014)
Looks like there have been proposals to eliminate use of 3 operand lea in OCaml code (not accepted sadly):
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8531
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Notes about the ongoing Perl logo discussion
An amazing example is Ocaml lang logo / mascot. It might be useful to talk with them to know what was the process behind this work. The About page camel head on Perl dot org header is also a pretty good example of simplification, but it's not a logo, just a friendly illustration, as the O'Reilly camel is. Another notable logo for this animal is the well known tobacco industry company, but don't get me started on that (“good” logo, though, if we look at the effectiveness of their marketing).
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What can Category Theory do?
Haskell and Agda are probably the most obvious examples. Ocaml too, but it is much older, so its type system is not as categorical. There is also Idris, which is not as well-known but is very cool.
- Playing Atari Games in OCaml
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Bloat
That does sound problematic, but without the code it is hard to tell what is the issue. Typically, compiling a 6kLoc file like https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/typing/typecore.ml takes 0.8 s on my machine.
What are some alternatives?
xic - CS 4120: A compiler for the Xi language in OCaml
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VisualFSharp - The F# compiler, F# core library, F# language service, and F# tooling integration for Visual Studio
dune - A composable build system for OCaml.
TradeAlgo - Stock trading algorithm written in Python for TD Ameritrade.
melange - A mixture of tooling combined to produce JavaScript from OCaml & Reason
rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
koka - Koka language compiler and interpreter
rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.
awesome-cl - A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.
go - The Go programming language