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As the first new release to Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack in about one month for this OpenCL and Level Zero compute support, Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 was released this morning with much improved OpenCL/OpenGL sharing and interoperability on Linux, out-of-the-box support for the Xe kernel graphics driver, new optimizations, and many other changes.

Zig is not just a programming language but also a toolchain that can help you maintain and gradually... Tagged with c, cpp, cabi.

Slashdot reader sleeping cat shares a recent FOSDEM talk by a compiler engineer on the team building Rust-GCC, "an alternative compiler implementation for the Rust programming language." "If gccrs interprets a program differently from rustc, this is considered a bug," explains the projects FAQ o...

The newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux also improves support for containers.

Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets Yvan Roux | 9 mins read With the upcoming release of LLVM 12.0.0, 32-bit Arm targets have gained the full support of the Machine Outliner code size optimization for Arm and Thumb-2 instruction sets. The expected code size gain provided by this optimization is around 5% on average (you can jump straight to the results part for more details). It is not turned on by default (see How to use it section) but our goal is to have it...