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I saw your LLVM WASM build RFC. Awesome! It would be super cool if point 4 (-fintegrated-lld) could be implemented - I’ve been wanting to add Clang/LLVM/LLD as an optional CModule (or then CXXModule!) backend for Frida instead of TCC and that’s one chunk of the required work.

[RFC] Building LLVM for WebAssembly
Overview I would like to propose a patchset that allows LLVM to be built for WebAssembly/WASI (this includes WASIp1 and WASIp2). I am interested in this functionality for the YoWASP project, and it will be immediately useful for the Amaranth HDL as well as Spade HDL communities, with obvious other applications for projects such as Compiler Explorer. Previous efforts Over the years there have been a few efforts to ship Clang built for Wasm. The most complete ones are: Applied WebAssembly: Com…

Come on, Naperville!
#RankedChoiceVoting

Proposed referendum would let Naperville residents decide if they want ranked choice voting
On the Tuesday afternoon of Illinois’ March primary, Rebecca Williams stood outside the Naperville Municipal Center as community members strolled in and out of the building — a polling place for th…

An important Godot for iPad milestone.
These are two instances of a full-blown Godot running side-by-side in the same process.
The next step on the virtualization idea that I shared on the blog post [1]
But this time, rather than being one-at-a-time, they are simultaneous.
This was necessary to support debugging of Godot apps on the iPad (and soon Vision).
[1]

Part 5: Making Godot Viable on iPadOS: Development Loop
Before I embarked on pouring my heart and soul into making a native iPadOS user experience of Godot, I needed to make sure that I would end up with a viable version of Godot. Building Godot to run on iPad is straightforward. The command line to do this is quite

On Smart Heating For Small Buildings in the UK (2012) - What would be 'smart' heating circa 2012 for our homes, schools, community centres and shops? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-smart-heating.html

On Smart Heating For Small Buildings in the UK (2012)
What would be smart heating circa 2012 for our homes, schools, community centres and shops?

As promised, another blog post: "Optimizing parallel extension builds in PEP517 builds"
"""
The distutils (and therefore setuptools) build system supports building C extensions in parallel, through the use of -j (--parallel) option, passed either to build_ext or build command. Gentoo distutils-r1.eclass has always passed these options to speed up builds of packages that feature multiple C files.
However, the switch to PEP517 build backend made this problematic. While the backend uses the respective commands internally, it doesn't provide a way to pass options to them. In this post, I'd like to explore the different ways we attempted to resolve this problem, trying to find an optimal solution that would let us benefit from parallel extension builds while preserving minimal overhead for packages that wouldn't benefit from it (e.g. pure Python packages). I will also include a fresh benchmark results to compare these methods.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/03/15/optimizing-parallel-extension-builds-in-pep517-builds/

Diane Abbott in her own words
"Over the nearly 40 years that I have been an MP, under any speaker of the House of Commons that I can remember, I would have been called. ... Hester’s abusive comments about me had led the news bulletins that day, and I was referred to several times in PMQs itself."
Her article also refers back to the Forde Report, which documented Labour politicians' horrible comments about her.
#DianeAbbott #LindsayHoyle #racism #FordeReport #UK

There's an open discussion in #Python packaging how `pyproject.toml` and `PKG-INFO` should interact in sdist. Long story short, new version of #Hatchling started taking `PKG-INFO` for granted. For distribution packagers, this means that patching `pyproject.toml` after unpacking sdist suddenly stopped working, and e.g. if you fixed dependency pins in it, hatchling would instead silently used pinned dependencies from `PKG-INFO`.
The discussion is still open, but there's already been some worrying comments, such as people should modify package versions when they patch them…
#Gentoo #PEP517