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Comment Re:A little over 30K on ohloh (Score 1) 101

by sabre on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @03:20AM (#36163116) Attached to: 10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project

Lets try this again, logged in:

Ohloh doesn't have full version control history, but it does show a little over 30K commits to the LLVM and Clang compilers:

Time flies when you're having fun!

-Chris

Comment Yay for C++'0B (Score 1, Redundant) 375

by sabre on Saturday March 26, 2011 @04:50PM (#35624506) Attached to: ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft

Enough said!

-Chris

Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance 234

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 27, 2009 @04:29PM from the do-stupid-things-faster-and-with-more-energy dept.

cocoanaut writes "A new project launched by Google's Python engineers could make the popular programming language five times faster. The project, which is called Unladen Swallow, seeks to replace the Python interpreter's virtual machine with a new just-in-time (JIT) compilation engine that is built on LLVM. The first milestone release, which was announced at PyCon, already offers a 15-25% performance increase over the standard CPython implementation. The source code is available from the Google Code web site."

Comment Re:LLVM / clang (Score 2, Interesting) 546

by sabre on Monday September 17, 2007 @12:35PM (#20638117) Attached to: GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?

clang is fairly early on, but so is PCC. PCC supports almost no GCC extensions (e.g. inline asm, attributes, etc), doesn't support C99 fully, and has many other problems. The clang parser is basically done for C and clang has support for several other source analysis tools other than "just code generation". See the slides linked of http://clang.llvm.org/ for details. I'd expect clang to be fully ready for C use in the next year.

llvm-gcc is quite mature (it has built huge amounts of code, including apps like Qt and Mozilla), supports C/C++/ObjC and bits of FORTRAN/Ada if that is your thing. Using llvm-gcc you get the advantages of the LLVM optimizer and code generator with the GCC front-end.

-Chris

GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? 546

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 17, 2007 @12:03PM from the all-good-things-must-end dept.

Sunnz writes "The leaner, lighter, faster, and most importantly, BSD Licensed, Compiler PCC has been imported into OpenBSD's CVS and NetBSD's pkgsrc. The compiler is based on the original Portable C Compiler by S. C. Johnson, written in the late 70's. Even though much of the compiler has been rewritten, some of the basics still remain. It is currently not bug-free, but it compiles on x86 platform, and work is being done on it to take on GCC's job."

GCC 4.2.1 Released 449

Posted by Zonk on Monday July 23, 2007 @05:39AM from the licensing-with-drama dept.

larry bagina writes "GCC 4.2.1 was released 4 days ago. Although this minor update would otherwise be insignificant, it will be the final GPL v2 release; all future releases will be GPL v3. Some key contributors are grumbling over this change and have privately discussed a fork to stay as GPL v2. The last time GCC forked (EGCS), the FSF conceded defeat. How will the FSF/GNU handle the GPL 3 revolt?"

Wikipedia Used To Spread Virus 116

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 05, 2006 @03:33PM from the ware-the-internets dept.

eldavojohn writes "The German Wikipedia has recently been used to launch a virus attack. Hackers posted a link to an all alleged fix for a new version of the blaster worm. Instead, it was a link to download malicious software. They then sent e-mails advising people to update their computers and directed them to the Wikipedia article. Since Wikipedia has been gaining more trust & credibility, I can see how this would work in some cases. The page has, of course, been fixed but this is nevertheless a valuable lesson for Wikipedia users."

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