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SQLite Lands JSONB For Much Faster JSON Functions

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 19:32
SQLite as the leading open-source embedded database solution has landed JSONB, a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that can be up to "several times faster" than the existing JSON functions...

One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 19:06
The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey...

The Performance & Power Improvement Of Steam Deck OLED's 6nm APU

Phoronix - Wed, 12/06/2023 - 05:19
The Steam Deck OLED has been on the test bench the past few weeks at Phoronix. The HDR OLED display of the updated Steam Deck handheld game console is gorgeous and was very impressed by it. On a technical level the battery life improvements are significant and one of the items I was most curious about were the power/performance implications in moving from the 7nm Van Gogh APU to a 6nm die shrink version of it while retaining the Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA2 integrated graphics. Here's a look at the performance and CPU power consumption between the Steam Deck LCD and Steam Deck OLED models not only for gaming but other Linux workloads too.

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