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LLVM Clang 21 Compiler Helping Squeeze More Performance On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 22:42
With LLVM 21.1 having been released last week as the newest half-year feature update to this open-source compiler stack, I have begun benchmarking Clang 21 on a variety of systems for getting a feel for the performance over Clang 20. Eventually it will be extended as well to looking at the Clang 21 performance against GCC and vendor compilers. For some initial Clang 21 benchmarking, here is a look at how the Clang 21 C/C++ compiler is performing on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Zen 5 processors compared to the prior release.

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 21:12
Arch Linux's convenient text-based OS installer "archinstall" is out with a new release today that promotes Logical Volume Manager (LVM) based installs no longer as "beta" quality...

sudo-rs Is Now The Default sudo Of Ubuntu 25.10

Phoronix - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 20:30
Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components. The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default...

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