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Following the trend from my previous patch, VSX instructions and registers are now enabled and available for use in pure assembly code (i.e. golang runtime arch-specific function implementations), so we can
In the ‘p’ struct type defined in the Golang runtime code, there is some padding at the end to avoid false sharing between different ‘p’-type structs. That padding should be
For consistency across platforms, Golang for Power now fetches the current time in nanoseconds, via the clock_gettime() syscall. Committed as 0df5ab7. This patch fixes issue #11222 for ppc64x. There is still
Golang 1.7 was released today. This release includes some significant changes, including: Port for Linux on IBM z Systems (s390) Compiler improvements, most notably, the SSA backend for x86_64 Context
I am starting a new kind of post on this website. I realized I share a bunch of interesting stories every day on Twitter and decided to curate a collection
Google’s annual developers conference started today at Moscone Center in San Francisco. At Google I/O 2014, the focus seems to be “Android Everywhere”. During the (extremely long) keynote, Google unveiled
I have been using a Motorola Moto X for a while. It replaced my Nexus 4 and iPhone 5 due to its great usability features, battery life and LTE connectivity.
As many of you are aware, I’m an Apple person. Every gadget in my personal and professional life is an Apple device. However, I decided to give Android a chance
Google has finally realized it needed an app specifically made for tablets and, during the last Google I/O conference, the company announced it was coming for both Android and iOS.
Throughout this week, we had Google’s annual developer conference happening at Moscone West, in San Francisco. As usual, the company unveiled a series of new products and gave away plenty
2011 was a boring year in tech. Not because there weren’t any cool new products and technology released, but by the fact that Apple is again the big winner of
Yesterday Google released their new news reader called Google Currents. If you are an iOS user, you probably already know Flipboard, which is similar to Google’s offer (sort of). I’ve