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Java Benchmarks: OpenJDK 8 Through OpenJDK 19 EA, OpenJ9, GraalVM CE

Phoronix - Thu, 06/23/2022 - 20:33
Stemming from a recent reader request around seeing some fresh OpenJDK performance benchmarks, here are benchmarks of OpenJDK 9 through OpenJDK 18 plus the early access OpenJDK 19 builds. Additionally, OpenJ9 and GraalVM CE were tossed in as alternative implementations.

Experimental -O3 Optimizing The Linux Kernel For Better Performance Brought Up Again

Phoronix - Thu, 06/23/2022 - 18:18
A set of patches have been posted for making the "-O3" compiler optimization level more easily accessible when building the Linux kernel but still it's not recommended and some kernel developers do not even want to see it as a Kconfig option...

Linux 5.20 To Feature Faster Console Scrolling At Boot For Old FBDEV Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 06/23/2022 - 17:40
This week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request was sent out of new DRM changes ready for queuing ahead of Linux 5.20. There isn't too much to get excited about for this week's code updates going to DRM-Next, but there is "fbcon: Improve scrolling performance" that did get my attention...

LightDM Display Manager 2022 Status Update: Not Much Going On

Phoronix - Thu, 06/23/2022 - 17:24
From 2011 to 2017 while Ubuntu had been using the LightDM display manager developed by Canonical, their engineers were actively supporting it and making new releases to coincide with new Ubuntu Linux updates. But with Ubuntu now using GDM as its default desktop display manager, there hasn't been a new LightDM release in three years and not much in the way of upstream activity. Today Canonical's lead LightDM maintainer issued a status update for the project...

Krita 5.1 Beta Released With Better WebP, Initial JPEG-XL, XSIMD For Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 06/23/2022 - 17:02
The first beta of Krita 5.1 for this leading open-source digital painting program is now available for testing...

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