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Bazaar 2.2 has been released

Bazaar 2.2 has been released recently. For those who don’t know it: Bazaar is a very nice distributed revision control system, similar to git and mercurial. Where Bazaar really shines is the ease-of-use, good documentation and good interop with other … Continue reading

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At NVIDIA

I’ll likely won’t be able to update my blog too often in the next weeks, as I started an internship at NVIDIA research. Hopefully this break shouldn’t be too long, but I seriously need to sort out a few things … Continue reading

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Building Qt — fast

For building Qt, you typically have to reserve an hour or so. There’s a much faster way to build it though (besides the optimisations I already described) — build it using jom. Jom is a multi-threaded nmake replacement. The only … Continue reading

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Reporting compiler bugs

Once in a life-time, you run into a compiler bug … well, that used to be the case, before HLSL/GLSL/OpenCL/CUDA/C++0x whatever started to crop up and require new front and especially code generation back-ends. More often than not, people just … Continue reading

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