Chip-design startup BoolSi Inc. today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build a compiler that turns ordinary software into custom hardware, doing away with the years of ...

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ispc compiles a C-based SPMD programming language to run on the SIMD units of CPUs and GPUs; it frequently provides a 3x or more speedup on architectures with 4-wide vector SSE units and 5x-6x on ...

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a ...

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Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

The compiler infers, but does not take instructions. There is no syntax for explicit type declarations yet, and the new type ...

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...

The right variable in the right place can make a huge difference.