We are excited to announce that with the latest release of Steam Audio, the complete source code of the Steam Audio SDK is now available as open source. With this release, our goal is to provide more control to developers, which will lead to better experiences for their users, and hopefully valuable contributions back to the...
Andrzej Janik has released ZLUDA 3, a new version of his open-source project that enables GPU-based applications designed for NVIDIA GPUs to run on other manufacturers’ hardware. The wrapper technology is designed to enable existing applications to run on new hardware unmodified, without the need for any work on their...
Codevis is a Large Scale software visualizer, focused on C++ codebases. it can help you identify issues and smells in your codebase. It also has an extensive plugin interface and some preliminary scripting support....
AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
Most of the stuff went over my head, Why should I care that C is no longer low-level? What exactly is considered close-to-metal in today's time, apart from binary and assembly?
Release 14.2 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows...
Performance optimisation matters when you are trying to get your application working in a resource-constrained environment. This is typically the case in embedded but also in some desktop scenarious you may run short on resources so it’s not a matter without significance on desktop either....
The next major version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), 14.1, was released on May 7 2024. Like every major GCC release, this version brings many additions, improvements, bug fixes, and new features.
A comprehensive guide to Hack Club's inner circle, potential labor law violations, union busting, and fundamental lack of transparency, democracy & respect for members.
While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...
Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension. The VK_NV_raw_access_chains extemsion should allow for more efficient shaders compiled from HLSL sources.
ffplay -f lavfi -i life=s=400x300:mold=10:r=30:ratio=0.1:death_color=#C83232:life_color=#00ff00,scale=1200:800:flags=32...
Eight years after launching the Vulkan database to the public, it’s approaching 30,000 uploaded reports from more than 3,300 different devices across Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS and iOS. With that much data available, good filtering capabilities are crucial.
New language promises to reduce compilation times by using all threads and gpu cores available on your machine. What's your opinions on it so far?
