I had an idea today that it'd be really cool if we ran our own programming contest just for fun. The first steps are planning and determining if there is any interest ...

Microsoft's Antonio Goncalves put the advanced GitHub Copilot Chat AI tool to work in a coding challenge, and he was impressed with the results. The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a Java ...

Clock speed and core count don’t tell the whole story, though. Core interconnects constitute the real programming challenge. Many multicore chips don’t employ the shared-memory approach found in ...