ocaml-4.11.1 version bump
- Statmemprof: a new statistical memory profiler
- A new instrumented runtime that records runtime statistics in a standard format
- A native backend for the RISC-V architecture
- Improved backtraces that refer to function names
- Suppport for recursive and yet unboxed types
- A quoted extension syntax for ppxs.
- Many quality of life improvements
- Many bug fixes
- New best-fit allocator for the major heap
- Preliminary runtime work for OCaml multicore
- Immutable strings are now enforced at configuration time
- User-defined indexing operators for multidimensional arrays
- Coming soon: statmemprof, a new statistical memory profiler.
- The external API will be released next version.
- Various improvements to the manual
- More precise exhaustiveness check for GADTs
- Many bug fixes
- New optimisations, in particular for affine functions in matches.
- The
graphics
library was moved out of the compiler distribution.
- The
vmthread
library was removed.
- Support for compiler plugins was removed.
- Many bug fixes.
Edited by Anton Kochkov