Zapcc, a caching C++ compiler built for speed, has gone open source. Ceemple Software, Zapcc’s builder, claims the compiler offers dramatic improvements in both incremental and full builds compared to ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Nvidia Corp said Wednesday (May 9) that LLVM, a popular open source compiler, now supports Nvida GPUs. Nvidia (Santa Clara, Calif.) said it worked with LLVM developers to provide its ...

Long held back by proprietary licensing issues, the D language's official compiler is now open source for all, a first step toward broadening its user base The D language, long an underdog among ...

Last week, we posted a story about the AMD Radeon Technology Group’s plans to support FreeSync over HDMI and other upcoming display technologies like HDR and DisplayPort 1.3. In that story, we ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARM announces the availability of version 6 of the ARM Compiler, the reference code generation toolchain for the ARM® architecture. ARM Compiler 6 adopts ...

Programmers release version 3.0 of GCC, a software project not as well-known as open-source projects such as Linux but one that's key to all of them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The foundation of the open-source movement has just shifted. On Monday, programmers released version 3.0 of GCC, a software project not as well-known as open-source projects such as Linux but one that ...

Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler support for Clang and the LLVM Compiler ...

Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). “What we see is more and more people are ...

It is a common problem these days. You have a piece of code in C or C++. Maybe it is older code. Or maybe you prefer prototyping your ideas using C. But, inevitably ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with GCC ...