Tag: GCC

Any doubt of Google's long-term plans can now be banished. It's a software platform, ladies and gentlemen -- a native, in-the-browser, secure and sandboxed platform. As of today you can now play with an early version of the Native Client (NaCl) SDK. You'll need a recent version of the Chromium browser too. We first reported NaCl back in November 2009. Back then we thought it would tie in with ...

You've probably heard of the recently-settled Intel/AMD anti-trust lawsuit -- most notably, the part of the resolution that involved Intel paying AMD $1.25 billion. But there was a lot more that went into the November 2009 settlement! For example, can you believe that the Intel compiler, the one used to produce a large percentage of all computer programs, intentionally cripples AMD processors? ...