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Latest Batch Of Rust Compiler Updates For GCC 15.1 Lands Support For... For Loops

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 22:32
Over the past week a lot of new Rust "gccrs" code was merged into the GCC 15 compiler code-base as a big step forward for this open-source Rust front-end. Another big batch of patches have been merged with for-loops now working among other functionality...

Intel Engineer Posts Cache-Aware Load Balancing For Linux - May Be Very Useful For AMD

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 20:55
An exciting new Linux kernel patch series was posted today for testing... Introducing support for cache-aware load-balancing. The patch comes from a veteran Intel Linux engineer but this cache aware load balancing may also prove very applicable for AMD Linux users for EPYC and Ryzen processors...

F2FS Sees Nice Set Of Enhancements For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 20:36
In addition to the Btrfs updates with real-time Zstd compression support and Bcachefs stabilizing its on-disk format, the Flash Friendly File-System updates have also been submitted already for the newly-opened Linux 6.15 merge window. There are a few exciting improvements for F2FS with this next Linux kernel version...

GCC & LLVM Clang Merge Support For The NVIDIA Olympus Cores With The Vera CPU

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 18:55
The GCC and LLVM Clang open-source compilers have landed support for the NVIDIA Olympus cores for NVIDIA's Vera CPU that is part of their next-gen Rubin microarchitecture succeeding Blackwell...

AMD INVLPGB Merged For Linux 6.15 To Provide Another Performance Advantage

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 18:37
The work carried out by a Meta engineer to make use of AMD's INVLPGB instruction within the Linux kernel for broadcast TLB flush handling has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.15! AMD INVLPGB has the possibility of helping with the performance in some areas and is found supported by recent generations of Zen CPU cores...

Flowblade 2.20 Open-Source Video Editor Leveraging SDL2, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 18:24
Flowblade 2.20 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editing system for Linux...

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