It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer.

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

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Welcome back to the second post in this series looking at how we can improve the performance of RISC-V code from LLVM.

At the time of writing, GCC beats Clang on several SPEC CPU 2017 benchmarks on RISC-V1: Compiled with -march=rva22u64_v -O3 -flto, running the train ↩

Police have deployed an armoured vehicle in Hong Kong's commercial heart, amidst an ongoing heavy security presence on the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Here we are again, another month and some more cool changes with FEX. Let’s dive in and see what has changed!

TL;DR: ccache base_dir saves the day

RISC-V is a relatively young and open source instruction set. So far, it has gained traction in microcontrollers and academic applications. For example, Nvidia replaced the Falcon microcontrollers …

Recently, I fixed a startup performance regression in Node.js on macOS after an extensive investigation. Along the way, I learned a lot about tools on macOS and Node.js compilation workflows that don’

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Hello, I am using macOS Ventura 13.6.7 with an Apple M2 Max processor. A loop that writes values into an integer array is about 20x slower with OCaml 5 than with OCaml 4. Using Array.set versus Arr...