We looked last week at some of the things that can influence the speed of programming languages and how different approaches to running code can influence program performance. Some work described by ...

Dropbox's compiler for Python uses the LLVM to push the language closer to C/C++ speeds, but it's far from production-ready Fast development or fast execution, take your pick. Python programmers elect ...

Have you ever wanted to analyze or mutate some C or C++ code? You can do some simple pattern matching with regular expressions, but there’s always some special case or another that will break your ...

Big news on the compilation tool chain front: Version 2.5 of the open source Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) compiler infrastructure has been released. LLVM 2.5, which helps developers build ...

Softpedia has been informed by the OpenMandriva Team that the upcoming OpenMandriva Lx3 GNU/Linux operating system will use the LLVM Clang compiler by default. In a very short blog announcement ...

GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, is a cornerstone of the GNU project and the larger free-software community that has grown up around it. Recently a debate sprang up on the GCC mailing list over the ...

The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...

Nomic Foundation's slang-solx compiler delivers up to 5x faster Solidity compilation while v0.8.37 adds security patches and Amsterdam EVM ...