Bringing new features to OCaml is not a trivial procedure, and any new contribution is subject to rigorous testing and inspection. The introduction of Multicore OCaml added a whole new dimension of complexity to the process, and this post takes you behind-the-scenes of a project that sprang from troubleshooting the restoration of MSVC to OCaml 5. Motivation OCaml 5.3 is released and comes with a restored MSVC (Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler) port. It had been removed with the introduction of...
