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Observed arrival · 2026-11-12

Century, a compiler that would rather refuse than guess

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Editorial interest 84/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

Century is a strict compiled programming language with parallel loops for CPUs and Vulkan GPUs.

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Programmers exploring compiled CPU and GPU parallelism
Worth noticing
Its published benchmark compares one and 16 threads on an Intel i7-13620H laptop, reporting 8.8× speedup with the same answer.

Field notes

The homepage presents runnable-looking examples alongside their command-line output, including a just-in-time compilation example and a GPU loop. It describes floating-point error budgets as a way to permit reordering only when the worst-case result change stays within a chosen tolerance. The site also says the compiler builds itself through stages that must produce byte-for-byte identical results.

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