[Info-vax] Chiphead News: Intel announces new Kaby Lake processors

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On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 3:45:56 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-09-03, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> >
> > Me too.  I'll admit to being something of a vandal when it comes to
> > creating hefty workloads which push the boundaries. :-)
> >
> 
> If you want a real world workload, try building the LLVM (and clang)
> kits from source. Throw in some of the other core LLVM projects for
> good measure if you wish such as LLVM's version of the C++ standard
> library.
> 

LLVM is certainly a beast but we have found it to have nice tools for development and debugging.

> Don't bother with dragonegg however as it appears to be stale:

We are definitely disappointed in the apparent fate of dragonegg.

> 
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/commit/3d09e0e55093ecb569a5c7009f105a1b4a257e89
> 
> I don't know why it's still on the LLVM website unless the situation
> has changed recently.
> 
> Simon.
> 
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