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I actively work on an OCaml project and couldn’t understand anything about what flambda does from its readme

• giraj 4y ago
  I updated the link to point to the docs, which are more informative. As far as I understand, flambda is an intermediate representation of OCaml which allows for a number of optimisations and better inlining. You can check if you already have flambda enabled by runnning "ocamlopt -config | grep flambda". If you're using opam then you can test flambda out by creating a new switch opam switch create ocaml-flambda ocaml-variants.4.14.1+options ocaml-option-flambda and then running "opam switch set ocaml-flambda". (You can replace 4.14.1 with your preferred version above.)
• momentoftop 4y ago
  It's a bunch of optimisation passes, I believe mostly around inlining. Ocaml is historically quite passive on that.