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@Octachron Octachron released this 16 Dec 12:28
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OCaml 5.0.0 introduces a completely new runtime environment with support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers.

As a language, OCaml 5 is fully compatible with OCaml 4 down to the performance characteristics of your programs. In other words, any code that works with OCaml 4 should work the same with OCaml 5.

The currently known exceptions to this rule are:

  • the removal of many long-deprecated functions and modules
  • changes to the internal runtime API
  • the performance of ephemerons is currently (and temporarily) strongly degraded.
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