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Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM

Phoronix - Tue, 06/03/2025 - 00:43
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework. The code is now open-source and they are talking up some very wild compile time improvements... Compiling code for x86_64 and AArch64 with TPDE can be ten to twenty times faster than using the LLVM Clang compiler...

Linux 6.16 Will Now Conveniently Report Hard/Soft Lockups & RCU Stall Counts

Phoronix - Mon, 06/02/2025 - 22:00
A very convenient addition to Linux 6.16 for system administrators is reporting to user-space via sysfs counters for the number of hard and soft lock-ups as well as RCU stalls...

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