This is cool! After the removal of all 32-bit targets from the native OCaml compiler, I had grown concerned about the portability of OCaml beyond the interpreter and Jsoo. But between this and the wasm efforts I see there are more escape hatches than I thought.
Consider sharing this in discuss.ocaml.org as well!
which uses 24 bit pointers for a 16M address space. I like it as it is clearly superior to the '8-bit' machines of the 1980s but a step below ARM.
kragen•3h ago
Below ARM in what metric? It's not below ARM in cost, power consumption, or transistor count. It's below ARM in aesthetic appeal and convenience, certainly, but why would you want that?
debugnik•4h ago
Consider sharing this in discuss.ocaml.org as well!