I’d like to take the opportunity to clarify a few details here.
Jane Street has been instrumental in this area by funding fundamental research in Multicore OCaml and the OCaml compiler via a research grant for the last 5+ years through the OCaml Labs initiative at the University of Cambridge. Beyond the dollar amount, it is the willingness of the Tools and Compilers (T&C) team at Jane Street to actively engage with the Multicore OCaml developers to co-create and guide development that has been most fruitful. Fundamental research in this direction includes papers on effect handlers, and the Multicore OCaml memory model. Valuable software development that has come out of this effort includes not only improvements to the compiler, but also benchmarking infrastructure (bench.ocamllabs.io and bench2.ocamllabs.io), which aids progress of Multicore OCaml, but also adds enormous value to the entire OCaml ecosystem.
Suffice to say that Multicore OCaml project wouldn’t be where it is without the support from Jane Street.
At OCaml Labs, we have a number of industrial partners, and we are always looking for collaborations that echo the similarly productive structure of co-creation and engagement we have with Jane Street.