We'll be meeting in the Computer Lab next Friday (28th August 2015) for another evening of compiler hacking. All welcome!

We'll also be having an afternoon of OCaml- and ML-related talks beforehand, with titles suspiciously similar to talks at the ML Workshop and OCaml Workshop the following week.

If you're planning to come along to either the talks or to compiler hacking, please add yourself to the Doodle poll. Further updates, if any, will be posted to the compiler hacking mailing list.

Schedule

3.30pm Polymorphism, subtyping and type inference in MLsub

Stephen Dolan (with Alan Mycroft)

3.55pm The State of the OCaml Platform: September 2015

Anil Madhavapeddy (with Amir Chaudhry, Thomas Gazagnaire, Jeremy Yallop, David Sheets)

4.20pm Modular macros

Jeremy Yallop (with Leo White)

4.45pm Break

5.15pm Effective Concurrency through Algebraic Effects

KC Sivaramakrishnan (with Stephen Dolan, Leo White, Jeremy Yallop, Anil Madhavapeddy)

5.40pm A review of the growth of the OCaml community

Amir Chaudhry

6.05pm Persistent Networking with Irmin and MirageOS

Mindy Preston (with Magnus Skjegstad, Thomas Gazagnaire, Richard Mortier, Anil Madhavapeddy)

6.30pm Food

7.30pm Compiler hacking

Further details

Where: Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, Madingley Road

When: 3.30pm (workshop); 6.30pm (compiler hacking), Friday 28th August 2015

Who: anyone interested in improving OCaml. Knowledge of OCaml programming will obviously be helpful, but prior experience of working on OCaml internals isn't necessary.

What: fixing bugs, implementing new features, learning about OCaml internals.

Wiki: https://github.com/ocamllabs/compiler-hacking/wiki

We're defining "compiler" pretty broadly, to include anything that's part of the standard distribution, which means at least the standard library, runtime, tools (ocamldep, ocamllex, ocamlyacc, etc.), ocamlbuild, the documentation, and the compiler itself. We'll have suggestions for mini-projects for various levels of experience (see also some things we've done on previous evenings), but feel free to come along and work on whatever you fancy.