Microsoft has extended its open source activity to include projects derived from work done on its Bing search engine. Over the last few days, engineers at Microsoft have started to provide code ...

The first commercial C++ compiler, Cfront, was released at that time; it translated C++ to C, which could then be compiled and linked. Later C++ compilers produced object code files to feed ...

The Intel compiler often produces faster code as the result of two major optimizations: IPO (Inter Procedural Optimization) and PGO (Profile Guided Optimization). IPO is a heuristics based ...