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Gavin Gray
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Gavin Gray writes Out of Sorts!, a personal blog at gavinleroy.com about programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A guided tour through Oxidized OCaml”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Describes a zero-allocation webserver written in OxCaml. The comment covers HTTP/1.1 pipelining, HTTP/2 connection pooling, and one-shot continuations for suspending fibers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Computer Science PhD Student at Brown University
Most-linked posts?
- A guided tour through Oxidized OCaml2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Good point; I've decided to simply not support HTTP/1.1 pipelines, and to have a connection pooling layer for HTTP/2 instead that takes care of this. In OxCaml, it has support for the effect system that we added in OCaml 5.0 onwards, which allows for a fiber to suspend itself and be restarted via a one-shot continuation. So it's possible to have a pipelined connection stash away a continuation for a response calcula…
Comment linking /oxcaml-tutorial-icfp25/
on “My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml”Submitted Fear Not the Association of Types as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guided tour through Oxidized OCaml as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Attention Requires Human Effort as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parametric Error Rendering and Interactive Diagnostics as a story · 1 points
HN discussion