Efficient coding has been an important subject for years especially for resource constrained systems running real-time applications. Most people take compiler optimizations for granted and do not ...

When I started college, design of the Intel 4004 was underway. The C programming language and UNIX operating system were being developed (unbeknownst to me). I did most of my programming in BASIC on ...

Want to scare the life out of a programmer friend? Just utter the words "multi-threading" into their ear - it works every time! Alright - that's a bit of an exaggeration, but writing multi-threaded ...

Computer hardware and software are getting ever more complex, but programmers aren’t getting smarter, and there aren’t enough of them. Better compilers may brighten this gloomy scenario in coming ...

Here’s a history quiz: What architecture did the first C++ compiler target? Of course, it is a trick question. The original C++ — known then as C with classes — compiler wrote out standard C code that ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ...