Observed arrival · 2026-11-12
Century, a compiler that would rather refuse than guess
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
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- Its published benchmark compares one and 16 threads on an Intel i7-13620H laptop, reporting 8.8× speedup with the same answer.
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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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