Experimenting with OCaml and eBPF February 15, 2025Building on top of the excellent book BPF Performance Tools by Brendan Gregg. How can we apply the techniques from Chapter 12 Languages to OCaml? First OCaml is roughly equivalent to C, it’s a compiled language with a runtime written in C. It supports frame pointers using the --enable-frame-pointers configuration option on x86_64, with ARM64 support in OCaml 5.4. Eventually the code we’re interested in is C or looks roughly like C but wit...
