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Ruby Lands "YJIT" As A Speedy, In-Process JIT Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 12:00
The Ruby programming language implementation has merged YJIT, it's new just-in-time (JIT) compiler...

CUDA-Python Reaches "GA" With NVIDIA CUDA 11.5 Release, __int128 Preview

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:00
NVIDIA has made available CUDA 11.5 today as the latest version of their popular but proprietary compute stack/platform. Notable with CUDA 11.5 is that CUDA-Python has reached general availability status...

GIMP 2.99.8 Released As Another Step Toward The Long Overdue GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 03:06
GIMP 3.0 as the GTK3 port of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative has been talked about for nearly a decade now and the work remains ongoing. However, out today is GIMP 2.99.8 as the newest development snapshot...

Intel Makes ControlFlag Open-Source For Helping To Detect Bugs In Code

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 02:29
Last year Intel announced ControlFlag as a machine learning tool for helping to uncover bugs within code. ControlFlag promised impressive results after being trained on more than one billion lines of code and at the end of 2020 was already being used internally on Intel's code-bases from firmware to software applications. We hadn't heard anything more about ControlFlag this year... Until today. Intel has now made ControlFlag open-source for helping to autonomously detect more programming bugs...

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.29 Released With Full AArch64 Linux Support, More Mature JITServer Tech

Phoronix - Thu, 10/21/2021 - 02:00
The newest feature release to Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available, the high performance Java Virtual Machine originating from IBM J9...

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