- A JavaScript engine that powered the Opera web browser prior to version 10.50, before being replaced by the Carakan engine. It was responsible for executing JavaScript code within Opera’s Presto rendering engine and represented Opera’s earlier approach to JavaScript interpretation and execution.
- A programming language designed for high-performance computing on GPUs, with automatic parallelization and memory management optimizations. Named after the ancient runic alphabet, Futhark compiles to efficient GPU code (typically OpenCL or CUDA) and focuses on array programming patterns, making it particularly suitable for scientific computing, machine learning, and other computationally intensive applications that benefit from parallel execution. ↑ futhark-lang.org
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