Codepope's Development Hell

FreeBSD: FreeBSD 9.2 is on schedule and with the release of 9.2 RC1 is ready for extensive testing. If all goes to plan then we should see a release at the end of August. OpenMP: From last month but important, the OpenMP 4.0(PDF) specification has been released. The updated API for parallel programming on shared memory systems has support for hardware based accelerators, SIMD handling, new error handling, the ability to set thread affinity, parallel task groups and synchronisation, Fortran 2003 support and more.