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Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance

Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:38

With this past week's release of Pyston 2.1 as an alternative Python interpreter I was curious to see how the performance compared to that of upstream Python... So here are some weekend benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system...

GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 23:15

GNU Binutils 2.36 is out today as the latest version of this collection of binary utilities for Linux/open-source systems...

Learn To Get Involved In Linux Kernel Development This Spring

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 21:49

The Linux kernel mentor program for the spring 2021 period is now accepting applications...

Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 19:40

Intel's latest open-source Linux driver contribution is a hinge driver that is set to debut with Linux 5.12...

GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL Renderer

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 16:33

While GTK 4.0 has been released, there still is major work to look forward to with future GTK4 releases. One area seeing recent and ongoing improvements is with the toolkit's OpenGL renderer...

GCC's JIT Library Is No Longer Considered "Alpha" Quality

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 13:15

With the upcoming GCC 11 compiler release the GNU compiler's just-in-time (JIT) library is no longer considered to be of alpha quality...

Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 09:08

Two years and nine patches later, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17 is out as the latest X.Org driver update for this open-source NVIDIA driver component...

Linux 5.12 To Allow Voltage/Temperature Reporting On Some ASRock Motherboards

Sun, 01/24/2021 - 02:43

Voltage, temperature, and fan speed reporting among desktop motherboards under Linux remains one of the unfortunate areas even in 2021... Many SIO ICs remain publicly undocumented and the Linux driver support is often left up to the community and usually through reverse-engineering. Thus the mainline Linux kernel support is left to suffer especially among newer desktop motherboards. At least for Linux 5.12 some ASRock motherboards will begin seeing their voltage/temperature reporting now function...

The First Online Conference Is Happening Today For The Godot Game Engine

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 21:00

For those interested in Godot as the premiere open-source 2D/3D game engine or just looking for some interesting technical talks to enjoy this weekend, the first GodotCon Online is today...

The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 20:29

One of many improvements we have been looking forward to with GNOME 40 is Mutter now having a separate input thread with its native back-end for Wayland...

KDE Saw Many Fixes + Improvements On Top Of Shipping Plasma 5.21 Beta

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 19:14

In addition to shipping the Plasma 5.21 beta this week, KDE developers were very active in not only working out fixes for next month's Plasma 5.21 desktop but also other improvements to KDE applications...

GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 17:06

Adding to the list of big ticket changes for GNOME 40 is Mutter now supporting atomic mode-setting...

Pyston 2.1 Released With Striving For High Performance Python

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 13:02

Pyston started out as a fork of CPython and was very promising during its early days as a Dropbox project for delivering on high performance Python. Its performance was great but in 2017 Dropbox stopped supporting it. Then at the end of 2020, Pyston reappeared and Pyston 2.0 promoted ~20% faster performance than Python 3.8. Pyston 2.x was developed by many of the original developers from Dropbox now out working on their own firm...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan vs. RadeonSI OpenGL Performance As Of January 2021

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 04:47

With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa on a nice upward trajectory with most recently now having the backing of a Valve contract developer and a focus on getting the backlog of patches to this Gallium3D code upstreamed, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at where the performance currently stands when using Zink atop the RADV Vulkan driver compared to using the native RadeonSI driver with this round of testing from a Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.

Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle

Sat, 01/23/2021 - 02:36

The open-source/Linux Apple M1 work continues to be quite busy this week... The latest is Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been working on reverse-engineering the M1 graphics processor has been able to write some early and primitive code for rendering a triangle...