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Google kicks off 64-bit Chrome for Linux
News Optimisations such as the Tracemonkey JIT engine (a just-in-time compiler for JavaScript) have yet not been implemented for x86-64, which means that the i686 build will be faster than the x86-64 build," among other reasons, Mozilla's Benjamin...
[August 21, 2009, 8:57]
Spat over MS 'flaw' gets heated
News Yet, with the current design, at least some buffer overflows can be avoided, said Brandon Bray, program manager for Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler team. A security company's assertion that a feature in Microsoft's latest software tools has a flaw...
[February 18, 2002, 13:03]
Wind River gives Intel a shot in the software arm
News Among its acquisitions in recent years are Neoptica for visual computing, OpenedHand for Linux user interface expertise, Swiftfoot Graphics for graphical rendering technology, Sarvega for XML processing, Elbrus/Unipro for Java and compiler tools...
[June 5, 2009, 13:50]
.Net gets close to fruition
News The beta hasn't been performance-tested yet, and Microsoft needs to work on getting better code from the compiler," Patterson said. After some initial hiccups, Microsoft has delivered stable beta versions of its basic .Net development tools.
[July 4, 2001, 11:28]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
News However, many other components of the operating system, such as the GLIBC library of supporting software and the GCC compiler, are expected to move to GPL 3. The new version of the most widely used open source licence takes a "highly aggressive...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News It should work a lot faster than the Pentium, but a lot depends on the compiler technology that'll be used with it. Fly back from Oslo, where I and A.N. Other have been whiling away a rather chilly yet interesting weekend.
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It should work a lot faster than the Pentium, but a lot depends on the compiler technology that'll be used with it. Fly back from Oslo, where I and A.N. Other have been whiling away a rather chilly yet interesting weekend.
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
Fedora to get PowerPC support
News In addition, Red Hat will use version 4 of the GCC compiler -- if it's ready in time. Version four of Fedora, Red Hat's free Linux offering, is slated to support two significant new features, the first for IBM's Power processor and the second for...
[February 15, 2005, 12:05]
IE9, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 in the PDC spotlight
News Out-of-browser applications can now be installed as trusted apps that run outside the Silverlight sandbox on both Windows and Macintosh, Guthrie said, with trusted applications getting access to the local file system and external devices.iPhone...
[November 19, 2009, 12:46]
Chip giants go their own ways (Part 2)
News Single-chip multi-processing The company plans to work with operating system and compiler vendors, over a process of several steps, to help them port their wares to its x86-64 processor. AMD argues that Intel's approach reinvents the wheel.
[October 7, 1999, 10:56]
'Cool' faces hot fight inside MS
News Among these is a Microsoft-developed optimising Java compiler and run-time environment, code-named "Marmot. The company's would-be Java killer, code-named Cool, has factions within the software giant battling over whether or not to create an...
[February 17, 1999, 11:53]
Which “one” word sums up information technology for you in 2008?
Blog Moving software from one form factor to another is best achieved using our optimisation/compiler toolset that blah blah blah,” I’ll stop there - you get the idea. An impossible task I know, but a pleasant distraction from the turkey and cranberry...
[December 29, 2008, 0:56]
Delay hits open-source .Net project
News Mono version 1.0 is expected to include a compiler for developers to write code with Microsoft's C# language. Developers and corporate customers eager to get their hands on an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net line of programming tools will...
[November 19, 2003, 9:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not quite as straightforward as the '10 PRINT "THOMPSON SMELLS OF POO" 20 GOTO 10' programs we all typed into the ZX81s on display in WH Smiths, but no optimising C++ compiler either. Monday 5/4/1999 Bank Holiday?
[April 9, 1999, 19:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Not quite as straightforward as the '10 PRINT "THOMPSON SMELLS OF POO" 20 GOTO 10' programs we all typed into the ZX81s on display in WH Smiths, but no optimising C++ compiler either. Monday 5/4/1999 Bank Holiday?
[April 9, 1999, 18:47]
Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact
News Lawrence Livermore, for example, has hired its own Linux kernel and compiler experts to speed the shift to clusters. Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
HP boosts Red Hat's Itanium push
News Red Hat is particularly important because it employs many programmers who work on the GCC "compiler," software that translates human-written programs into instructions that a computer can understand. Hewlett-Packard's strong backing for Intel's...
[June 27, 2002, 11:35]
Top 10 reasons to migrate to .Net
News You can create simple Web services with Notepad and not even have to run them through a compiler; simply call them and .Net compiles them and even generates a test page so you can verify they are working.
[November 19, 2002, 11:50]
New KDE to arrive with Halloween eye candy
News He said that the group is waiting on an improved compiler and is also streamlining the software, which is a slow process. The software is one of the two best known graphical user interfaces for Linux, the other being Gnome.
[October 17, 2002, 16:58]
Intel releases beta Mac development tools
News Intel has released betas of its software development tools for Mac OS X running on the Intel architecture. The tools were announced in August of last year, with the beta release coming immediately after Apple's launch last week of iMac and MacBook...
[January 18, 2006, 10:10]
