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There are times when network security defenders need to compile exploit code. It is not unusual for more than a dozen new exploits against Windows and Linux machines to be released each day, and ...

If the big bottleneck in your Rust development workflow is compile time, there are at least five ways you can fix it.

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Google today launched Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle) as part of its push to bring native code to more and more platforms. The tool lets developers compile their code once to run ...

If you want to understand where we are going with computer architectures and the compilers that drive them, it is instructive to look at how compilers have made the leap from architecture to ...

SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn't the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple's embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the ...