OpenCL today is considered as deprecated on macOS, let’s see if we can get OpenCL kernels compiled to AIR to run on Metal. Let’s start… Read More »OpenCL on Metal #1 – get_global_id()

For iOS simulators, dyld_sim is used as the dynamic linker. How small can the list of dependencies be to run a “hello world” in such… Read More »What is the minimum number of libraries to run a “hello world” on iOS Simulator?

On recent driver revisions for Linux x86_64 (this does not apply to AArch64 NVIDIA drivers at this time), NVIDIA shipped firmware for a new coprocessor,… Read More »NVIDIA GSP Firmware

Microsoft has an edge SQL Server product that is also available on 64-bit Arm in addition of x86 processors, offering core functionality. However, forget about… Read More »SQL Server on Arm

(Part 1 at https://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/01/thoughts-on-tachyum/, let’s assume that most Tachyum claims are true) Tachyum is a company saying that their VLIW processor will change computing, being… Read More »Thoughts on Tachyum (part 2)

9 days ago, I pushed to https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/pull/151 a more complete mrustc on macOS branch including Apple Silicon support, to have an alternative Rust compiler available… Read More »mrustc on macOS

Visual Studio today (the IDE) is still a 32-bit x86 application. How well does it run on a Windows on Arm machine? Disclaimer: This workflow… Read More »Visual Studio on an Arm Windows machine

I ordered an iPad Air (again) on Sunday and picked it up on Monday. So far, it’s quite good, with the Apple Pencil being the… Read More »Not-an-iPad-review

I’ve been reading this blog post. (titled “Heads up: Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS”) The headline by itself already sets… Read More »Open source rhetoric? or FUD?