Posts tagged Async

Abandoning Async

There is an old and great schism in the OCaml community. The schism is between two concurrency libraries - Async and Lwt. As usual for these things, the two are very similar, and outsiders would wonder what the big deal is about. The fundamental problem of course is that they’re mutually incompatible. The result of this is a split OCaml world with almost no interoperability, and duplication of efforts.

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Lru Cache With a Memcache-Like Interface

Lately, I’ve been messing around with Janestreet’s core and async libraries by reimplementing an old interview question that has been posed to me before. The problem statement itself is from my memory alone so this isn’t 100% what I’ve been asked but it should be extremely close.

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