Programmers are working to debug and speed performance of the newly released GCC 4.0, the compiler at the foundation of the open-source and free-software movements. Lead programmer Mark Mitchell ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Microsoft continues its plan to revitalize its decades-old C/++ compiler, with a focus on areas such as diagnostics and standards compliance, while striving for backward compatibility. The company, in ...

I wonder what performance impact this has had (if any). The last time I tested using Clang vs Visual C++ for compiling and found that the VC++ .exe was larger, but also faster to execute. I don't use ...

In the newest of a series of moves to try to impart momentum to Intel's Itanium processor, allies backing the chip are funding work to improve a key programming tool. Compilers translate human-written ...

GCC is used to produce most programs in the open-source movement, so a little improvement or degradation can propagate widely. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...