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BOLT Merged Into LLVM To Optimize Binaries For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 05:10
Merged into LLVM's mono repository minutes ago was BOLT! This is the Facebook-developed tool for optimizing the layout of binaries in the name of delivering greater performance. Facebook (now Meta) already has been using BOLT internally to great success with production workloads, it's continued advancing in the public as open-source for a while, and is now upstream in LLVM for fostering its future development...

Red Hat / Fedora Anaconda Installer Shifting To A Web Based UI

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 03:00
The Red Hat / Fedora Anaconda installer for carrying out new operating system installs is in the early stages of a major rewrite to its user-interface and moving forward will be web-based...

PCIe 6.0 Specification Released With 64 GT/s Transfer Speeds

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 02:42
While PCIe 5.0 adoption is only in its infancy, the PCI-SIG today announced the PCIe 6.0 specification...

NVIDIA 510.39.01 Linux Beta Brings Vulkan Dynamic Rendering, AV1 VDPAU Decode & More

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 23:00
In addition to announcing the GeForce RTX 3080 12GB graphics card this morning, NVIDIA has published their first public beta of the new NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series...

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