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Benchmarking OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 With Its AMD Zen Optimized Build

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 05:17
While Intel has Clear Linux as an aggressively optimized Linux distribution catering towards their hardware, there isn't a direct equivalent for optimally showcasing the performance potential of current AMD platforms. Clear Linux often offers leading performance on Zen CPUs but that is obviously not by design but just an artifact of a lot in common between the latest Intel and AMD microarchitecture features. One of the few distributions (or only notable one) offering specific AMD Zen optimized builds has been OpenMandriva. With the OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 release candidate shipping this week, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at how OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 RC1 compares between its generic x86_64 image and that of the Zen optimized build as well as in turn how that performance compares to Clear Linux and Ubuntu 20.10.

Wasmer 1.0 Released As The Universal WebAssembly Runtime Outside The Browser

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 04:08
As we have been expecting in recent weeks, Wasmer 1.0 has been released as the "universal WebAssembly runtime" for helping to accelerate WASM adoption and new use-cases outside of the web browser...

Fedora 34 To Ship With Standalone XWayland, LLVM 12 + Other Changes Approved

Phoronix - Wed, 01/06/2021 - 01:06
Fedora 34 remains under active feature development and another batch of features were unanimously approved of by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee...

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