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My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

  • Anil Madhavapeddy--Recoil.org
  • published date: 2026-02-02 10:45:44 UTC

Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.

Since helping with the OxCaml tutorial last year at ICFP, I've been chomping at the bit to use it for real in our research infrastructure for planetary computing to manage the petabytes of TESS… [+18468 chars]