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GCC 11.2 RC1 Compiler Punted For Testing

Phoronix - Thu, 07/22/2021 - 08:15
Three months after GCC 11.1 arrived as the first stable release of GCC 11, GCC 11.2 is set to be released soon while out today is the first and only planned release candidate...

NVMM Ported To DragonFlyBSD For Virtualization

Phoronix - Thu, 07/22/2021 - 03:30
DragonFlyBSD has integrated the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (NVMM) hypervisor that can be used with QEMU...

Open-Source Radeon Tools Updated With Expanded RDNA(2) Support, Other Features

Phoronix - Thu, 07/22/2021 - 02:09
In addition to NVIDIA releasing new open-source GameWorks projects this week for the Game Developers Conference, AMD with their GPUOpen initiative has released several updated Radeon Windows/Linux tools...

AMD AOCC 3.1 Compiler Released - Rebased On LLVM 12.0

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 23:00
AMD earlier this week quietly published a new version of its AOCC code compiler that is now rebased against the upstream LLVM/Clang 12.0 compiler state...

Squeezing More Performance Out Of The Linux Kernel With Clang + LTO

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 21:00
With the Linux 5.12 kernel bringing support for building the kernel with link-time optimizations (LTO) when using the LLVM Clang compiler, here are some benchmarks looking at that performance impact as well as more generally seeing how the LLVM Clang compiler performance is looking when building the Linux kernel relative to GCC.

LLVMpipe Effectively At OpenGL 4.6 With Anistropic Filtering Now Supported

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 18:00
The LLVMpipe software OpenGL driver in Gallium3D as well as the Lavapipe Vulkan software implementation now have anisotropic texture filtering support with Mesa 20.3 development code...

DAMON-Powered Proactive Reclamation Revised For Linux Memory Savings

Phoronix - Wed, 07/21/2021 - 17:00
Amazon's DAMON is looking like it might be near for mainlining into the Linux kernel for this "Data Access Monitor". One of the follow-up patches that builds off DAMON that is also being pursued by Amazon engineers for proactive reclamation of memory pages...

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