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Modula-2 Language Frontend Merged Into GCC 13

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 05:05
Yesterday it was the GCC Rust front-end "gccrs" being merged into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase for GCC 13. Today the Modula-2 language front-end also made it over the finish line...

LLVM's Flang Compiler Adds -Ofast & -ffast-math Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 02:00
Flang as LLVM's Fortran language front-end has landed support for the -Ofast and -ffast-math compiler flags...

Intel SGX Async Exit Notification "AEX Notify" Lands In Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 00:30
In addition to the in-development Linux 6.2 bringing TDX guest attestation support for use with new processors, another new hardware security feature being enabled with this next kernel release is Asynchronous Exit Notification for Software Guard Extensions (SGX)...

AMD's GPUOpen Announces ADLX Library But For Now It's Windows-Only

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 22:40
AMD's GPUOpen group has announced the AMD Device Library eXtra "ADLX" software development kit intended to help improve integration with third-party software. While nice in theory, for now at least it's Windows-only...

Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Linux Performance Evolution Since Launch

Phoronix - Wed, 12/14/2022 - 21:49
As we approach the end of 2022 and with Intel recently having revealed a January date for introducing Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids", here is a look at how the upstream Linux performance has evolved since the debut of the current-generation Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors debuted in early 2021. This article is looking at the Xeon Platinum 8380 Linux performance with benchmarks conducted on CentOS Stream, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu back when Ice Lake SP first debuted against now on the latest Linux OS releases.

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