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Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code Removal, Win For Performance & Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 19:37
A project more than one year in the making by Emma Anholt is about to mark its completion with GLSL-to-TGSI set to be removed from Mesa whereby Gallium3D will always go through the NIR intermediate representation while older drivers still dependent upon TGSI will make use of the NIR-To-TGSI pass. Using NIR means better performance and getting rid of the GLSL-to-TGSI code path means freeing up more than twenty thousand lines of code...

Initial SPIR-V Backend Code Lands In LLVM 15

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 18:18
The long in-development work by Intel, The Khronos Group, and other organizations on a proper SPIR-V back-end for LLVM is finally seeing code in mainline. As of last night the initial pieces have landed for the LLVM SPIR-V back-end for this Khronos open standard IR used most notably by Vulkan but for OpenCL and OpenGL as well...

QEMU 7.0 Released With Intel AMX Support, Many RISC-V Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 17:48
QEMU 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Patches Updated For Linux To Enjoy Consoles Running At Full-Speed

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 17:23
As part of the long ongoing work to improve Linux's printk() code, there has been work to allow for threaded console printing and allowing consoles to run at full-speed. That work is still ongoing but Tuesday saw the third iteration of those printk patches posted...

HPVM 2.0 Compiler For Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Brings New Hetero-C++ Front-End

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 16:52
Back in 2020 the University of Illinois released HPVM as a heterogeneous parallel systems compiler. This compiler for CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / other accelerators reached version 1.0 and this week HPVM 2.0 has been announced by the university research crew...

How to Install dbWatch to Monitor MySQL Performance in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 14:52
The post How to Install dbWatch to Monitor MySQL Performance in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

dbWatch is a powerful, multi-platform, fully-featured, and enterprise-grade SQL database monitoring and management tool that gives you full control over your database instances and system resources. It is highly scalable, secure, and designed for

The post How to Install dbWatch to Monitor MySQL Performance in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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