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TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Techtonic shift: GCCs hiring 4x faster than IT cos now
GCCs are expanding headcount by 18-27% year on year, compared with 4-6% for IT services, according to data from staffing firm TeamLease Digital. Together, they employ nearly 2 million people now, up from 1.2 million in 2022, creating about 300,000 jobs annually. In contrast, IT services have added only 25,000-40,000 employees a year on a net basis during this period.

GRPO-GCC: Enhancing Cooperation in Spatial Public Goods Games via Group Relative Policy Optimization with Global Cooperation Constraint
Zhaoqilin Yang, Chanchan Li, Tianqi Liu, Hongxin Zhao, Youliang Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08607

GRPO-GCC: Enhancing Cooperation in Spatial Public Goods Games via Group Relative Policy Optimization with Global Cooperation Constraint
Inspired by the principle of self-regulating cooperation in collective institutions, we propose the Group Relative Policy Optimization with Global Cooperation Constraint (GRPO-GCC) framework. This work is the first to introduce GRPO into spatial public goods games, establishing a new deep reinforcement learning baseline for structured populations. GRPO-GCC integrates group relative policy optimization with a global cooperation constraint that strengthens incentives at intermediate cooperation l…

Instead of sleeping, I'm making ChatGPT write Linux tutorials in Old Frisian. It's...actually not terrible.

I've been porting some code from C 17 to C 23. Many nice improvements in the language!
A side note: Clang is so much worse than GCC in almost everything, from compilation times, runtime performance, to C 23 coverage... Staggering!
GCC alone is a good reason to dump MacOS for GNU/Linux (among many others).

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
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- GRPO-GCC: Enhancing Cooperation in Spatial Public Goods Games via Group Relative Policy Optimizat...
Zhaoqilin Yang, Chanchan Li, Tianqi Liu, Hongxin Zhao, Youliang Tian

I've been porting some code from C 17 to C 23. Many nice improvements in the language!
A side note: Clang is so much worse than GCC in almost everything, from compilation times, runtime performance, to C 23 coverage... Staggering!
GCC alone is a good reason to dump MacOS for GNU/Linux (among many others).

Retrofitting Control Flow Graphs in LLVM IR for Auto Vectorization
Shihan Fang, Wenxin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04890 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04…

Retrofitting Control Flow Graphs in LLVM IR for Auto Vectorization
Modern processors increasingly rely on SIMD instruction sets, such as AVX and RVV, to significantly enhance parallelism and computational performance. However, production-ready compilers like LLVM and GCC often fail to fully exploit available vectorization opportunities due to disjoint vectorization passes and limited extensibility. Although recent attempts in heuristics and intermediate representation (IR) designs have attempted to address these problems, efficiently simplifying control flow a…

no autoconf. i do not think you are truly sorry.
you will suffer for your sins

Scepticism is natural. I wonder …
Tachyum Delivers a Release Candidate of its Prodigy Software Distribution Package Supporting 4x256 Cores
"… The company’s software distribution package combines key advancements to deliver optimal performance for Prodigy. Notable updates to RC1 include the inclusion of GCC 14.2, Linux 6.12, LLVM 19, FreeBSD 14.1 and QEMU 9.11. …"
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Honestly, Freedesktop has done so much more for the Linux ecosystem.
I don't know why we bother mentioning GNU at this point, since their contributions are ancient and small at this point. What is left is GCC and Glibc. Glibc being a source of pain more than being helpful.
GNU stuff is at the foundation of the Linux desktop, but not much more than that.