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Pipe FMODE_NOWAIT Support Sent In For Linux 6.4 As A 10~23x Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 21:00
While the Linux 6.4 merge window is closing this weekend, today on the last full day of the period is Jens Axboe submitting pipe FMODE_NOWAIT support as what he's described as a big performance and efficiency improvement...

RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 20:16
One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support...

Intel ISPC 1.20 Released: Smaller & Faster

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 20:08
Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 18:30
While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding...

KDE Developers In Germany Planning For Plasma 6.0

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 18:18
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham shared that key KDE developers are currently in Germany for an in-person Plasma 6.0 development sprint...

Steam Beta Now Honors KDE & GNOME Global Scaling Factor

Phoronix - Sat, 05/06/2023 - 05:00
Today's Steam client beta will be a delight for some Linux gamers with the Steam client finally recognizing the GNOME and KDE desktop global scaling factor for text sizing...

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