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Submission + - Multi threaded programming without the pain

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holden karau

on Thursday March 22, 2007 @01:02AM

holden karau writes: "Gigahertz are out and cores are in. Now more than ever, programmers must begin to develop applications that takes advantage of increasing number of cores present in computers today. However, up until now, multi-threaded development has not been easy. Researcher Stefanus Du Toit discusses and demonstrates a software system (RapidMind) he co-authored that takes the pain away from multi-threaded programming in C++. For his demo, he created a program on the PlayStation 3, consisting of thousands of chickens, each independently processed by a single processing core. The talk itself is interesting, but the demo is golden."

Submission + - A new way to find code

Submitted by tabandmountaindew on Sunday February 04, 2007 @06:32AM

tabandmountaindew writes: Too much time is wasted re-implementing code that someone else has already done, for the sole reason its faster than finding the other code. Previous source code search engine, such as google codesearch and krugle, only considered individual files on there own, leading to poor quality results; making them only useful when the amount of time to re-implement was extremely high.According to a recent newsforge article a fledgling source-code search engine All The Code is aiming to change all of this. By looking at code, not just on its own, but also how it is used, it is able to return more relevant results. This seems like just what we need to unify the open-source community, leading to an actual common repository of unique code, and ending the cycle of unnecessary reimplementing.

Submission + - Review of new Xandros 4.1 Professional Linux

Submitted by

holden

on Monday December 04, 2006 @02:55PM

holden writes: "Newsforge has a wright up on a review of the new Xandros 4.1 professional.Some of the big changes in professional include a newer kernel, AIGLX, and support for 3G wireless. One of the subtle, but still very important changes, is that Xandros has finally removed the registration requirement, and users can now access Xandros Networks with registering first. Techworld, and others are allready looking at Xandros as a possible challenger to Windows Vista. With all of the talk of Linux on the Desktop, could Windows Vista finally be the chance for Linux to make some headway?"

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