FreeBSD 16 development tree has removed the last GPL-licensed component, GNU dialog, making the base system entirely GPL-free for the first time. The cleanup, which took over a decade, simplifies comp…
Intel has archived its Quantum Intrinsics open-source project, a C++ front-end for the Intel Quantum Compiler, along with other AI-related projects like OAP-MLLIB, as part of ongoing restructuring. Th…
A developer revived his custom bytecode virtual machine UVM and built a Clang backend to compile real software, successfully porting Doom to run on it at 27 FPS on a MacBook Air M5.…
A Haskell developer explores methods to invoke low-level CPU instructions from GHC, such as computing the full 128-bit product of two 64-bit integers, despite GHC lacking inline assembly support. The …
LLVM merged three optimizations to its BumpPtrAllocator, reducing overhead in the fast path by skipping unnecessary realignment, removing a null check via a sentinel end pointer, and eliminating per-a…
ACAV (Aurora Clang AST Viewer) is an interactive tool for visualizing Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) of C, C++, and Objective-C code, built with Clang and Qt. It uses a JSON compilation database to open…
The article compares four major C++ deque implementations—libstdc++ (GCC), libc++ (Clang/LLVM), Microsoft STL (Visual Studio), and Boost.Container 1.90—highlighting their differing design choices for …
The article provides a step-by-step command-line guide for installing Clang 5.0 and related LLVM tools on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). It includes commands to add the LLVM repository, install the compiler a…