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GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2026 - 21:45
GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.

Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 Brings More Xe3P Enableement, Nova Lake P Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2026 - 19:01
Intel on Tuesday released a new version of their open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Level Zero support across their integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

Discord Touts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2026 - 18:17
Discord, the popular instant messaging and VoIP communication platform, announced some significant improvements being made to their Linux client...

NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2026 - 18:06
In addition to FreeBSD 15.1 releasing in the coming weeks, NetBSD 11.0 is also just around the corner as another prominent and major BSD update. NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is now available for last minute testing with this hoping to be the final release candidate...

KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2026 - 17:41
KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...

Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2026 - 17:30
A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9.3 and later...

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