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Submission + - GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support for 64-bit ARM (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec on Thursday December 27, 2012 @08:38AM

hypnosec writes: A new version of GNU C Library (glibc) has been released and with this new version comes support for the upcoming 64-bit ARM architecture a.k.a. AArch64. Version 2.17 of glibc not only includes support for ARM, it also comes with better support for cross-compilation and testing; optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp for System z10 and zEnterprise z196; optimized version of string functions on top of some quite a few other performance improvements states the mailing list release announcement. Glibc v 2.17 can be used with a minimum Linux kernel version 2.6.16.

The Transistor's 60th Birthday 185

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, 2007 @01:47AM from the silly-hats-will-be-worn dept.

Apple Acolyte sends in a Forbes piece noting the 60th birthday of the transistor on Dec, 16. For the occasion the AP provides the obligatory Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article. From Forbes: "Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world's first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so impossibly bulky, hot and power hungry."

Comment BitTorrent download (Score 1) 382

by Zolotkey on Sunday April 17, 2005 @11:55PM (#12266330) Attached to: Star Wars: Revelations Available Online

The BitTorrent download is slower than I would have thought since everyone is trying to download it. Unless only /. people are using BitTorrent so not a lot of upload is going.

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