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SPO600 Labs

The Software Portability and Optimization (SPO600) course is focused on optimizing software on AArch64 systems, using the LEAP, Fedora, and CentOS. Software is sometimes written to work on a specific computer architecture (type of computer), such as on Intel-compatible x86_64 PCs, or IBM Z-series mainframes.

SPO600-Software Portability and Optimization @ Seneca College

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08
Jan

Optimizing Google’s Compression Algorithm Zopfli (Stage 2)

01/08/2018,
Test Building Post Notes: All tests and optimizations can be downloaded from my GitHub repo. github.com/marcobeltempo/zopfli/tree/optimization_tester To build the source code run the make command from the main directory Execute/compress file ./zopfli your_file_nameIn continuation of Stage...
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06
Jan

GNU Source Building | glibc | Part 2

01/06/2018,
Download – glibc-2.26.tar.xz Similar to my last post GNU Source Building | Wget | Part 1, I will be covering the popular GNU C library package. Glibc provides the user with an interface to the...
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06
Jan

GNU Source Building | Wget | Part 1

01/06/2018,
This post will be the first of two, discussing the ideas behind Free Software Foundation, as well as getting hands-on with a couple common GNU software packages you’ve probably used at some point in time....
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30
Nov

Continuous Integration with Travis CI

11/30/2017,
Continuous integration platforms, such as Travis CI, allow for small code changes to be merged into a project after passing a series of automated testing performed in a virtual environment. Not only does this reduce...
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29
Nov

Auto-vectorization With the gcc Compiler

11/29/2017
One way of increasing the performance of loops is by triggering vectorization methods built into the gcc compiler. Vectorization will speed up your program when the same operation to of vector types. At the lowest...
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11
Oct

Assembly Language: aarch64 & x_86 Loops

10/11/2017
Many high-level programming languages are designed with tons of features and functionalities to make the development process easier for programmers. With all the available IDE’s it’s easy to forget about (or even notice) the processes...
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24
Sep

Compiling C on AARCHIE

09/24/2017
The purpose of this lab is to investigate basic C source code and analyze elf64-littleaarch64 files created by the gcc compiler. To demonstrate the differences I created a simple hello world program in C and...
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19
Sep

Open Source Contributions

09/19/2017,
Contributing to an open source project can be intimidating at first. You’re faced with thousands of files, directories, and programming languages you’ve probably never even heard of. Before you become overwhelmed, the first step to...
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