Perhaps February was "compiler modernization" month. The Linux kernel recently decided to move to the C11 standard for its code; Python has just undergone a similar process for determining which ...

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for the longest time, something reserved for people with big wallets. This ...

In 1985, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established IEEE 754, a standard for floating point formats and arithmetic that would become the model for practically all FP ...