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A new C++ back end for ocamlc

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Compiler development for OCaml, relevant to open source and tooling.

2026-04-02 open/source Hacker News (100+)
This patch adds a new C++ backend to ocamlc, improving on the unincremented C currently in use by the runtime and FFI. As an example, here's a simple program that computes the prime numbers up ...
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Article URL: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058 Points: 197 # Comments: 17

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