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Emacs 29.1 Released - No Longer Chokes On Very Long Lines

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 21:26
GNU Emacs 29.1 is out this morning as the latest update to this popular and powerful text editor...

Linux Patches Revised Around Non-Blocking Consoles

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 21:13
As one of the last blockers for getting real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support mainlined in the Linux kernel, this week saw a revised patch series around non-blocking consoles...

Linux Kernel Prepares Rust Toolchain Upgrade To v1.71

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 18:41
Linux 6.5 upgraded its Rust toolchain against Rust 1.68.2. This was the first upgrade of the Rust toolchain from the original v1.62 requirements when the first Rust kernel code was mainlined. A second upgrade is now planned to take it to Rust 1.71...

Linux 6.5-rc4 Brings Change For Enabling STIBP On AMD Zen 4 Auto IBRS Systems

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 18:17
Last weekend I wrote about Zen 4's Automatic IBRS security feature needing STIBP enabled for protecting user-space processes. Single-Threaded Indirect Branch Predictors though haven't been enabled up to now with the Auto IBRS functionality on Linux. But the x86/urgent pull request sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc4 tagging makes that change...

LPython Is The Latest Python Implementation Aiming To Be Very Fast, Multiple Backends

Phoronix - Sun, 07/30/2023 - 00:57
LPython is the latest open-source Python implementation aiming to be a very performant version of Python among other interesting features...

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