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Using OxCaml to implement type-safe reference counting between OCaml and Python

Jane Street introduces OxCaml, a technique for embedding Python interpreters in OCaml programs that uses a type-safe reference-counting mechanism to safely manage cross-language object lifetimes between OCaml and Python.

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