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Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of March 24 to 31, 2015.

1. Is there a 64 bits Native MinGW port?
2. Other OCaml News

Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2015-03/msg00151.html

> in the README.win32 file of the last OCaml release, four ports are listed.
>
>
> >                Native MS      Native MinGW       Cygwin
> > 
> > 64 bits?     Win32 or Win64    Win32 only      Win32 only
>
> Are there any problem with a 64 bits native MinGW port?

It was introduced in 4.00.0, though apparently README.win32 wasn't updated.
      

Thanks to Alp Mestan, we now include in the OCaml Weekly News the links to the
recent posts from the ocamlcore planet blog at http://planet.ocaml.org/.

Why GADTs matter for performance:
  https://blogs.janestreet.com/why-gadts-matter-for-performance/

Announcing Lambdoc 1.0-beta3:
  http://nleyten.com/post/2015/03/30/Announcing-Lambdoc-1.0-beta3

Heap sort:
  http://blog.shaynefletcher.org/2015/03/heap-sort.html
      

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