SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn't the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple's embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the ...

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 ...

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 GNU family of compilers produce highly optimized code for Intel and AMD CPUs. As the LLVM C and C++ compilers deliberately share the majority of their optimization flags with their GNU equivalents ...

Does it make sense to build something from scratch when there’s a perfectly good solution available — especially if it’s open source? Once upon a time, Microsoft’s default was to build its own rather ...