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AOCC 3.1 Compiler Performance Against Clang 12, GCC 11 On AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 20:50
Following the recent benchmarks seeing how AMD's new AOCC 3.1 compiler has brought some performance improvements over the prior AOCC 3.0 release that introduced initial Zen 3 optimizations, here are some benchmarks looking at how that latest AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler performance compares to the upstream LLVM Clang 12 compiler for which it is based as well as against GCC 11 as the latest GNU compiler release that remains common to Linux systems.

Manjaro 21.1 Bringing Enhanced Support For Btrfs, Automatic Backups

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 18:53
Manjaro 21.1 is on the way as the newest release of this Arch Linux based operating system that is popular for its desktop ease of use...

AMD PMC Updates, Intel Alder Lake HID, Gigabyte-WMI Patches Land In Linux 5.14

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 17:46
While solidly into the "fixes" stage of Linux 5.14 kernel development, the x86 platform driver pull request this week -- which has already been merged to mainline -- does have some new additions worth mentioning...

RenderDoc 1.15 Released For Cross-Platform/API Graphics Debugging

Phoronix - Thu, 07/29/2021 - 17:30
RenderDoc continues maturing gracefully as the leading frame-capture based graphics debugging system for OpenGL / Direct3D / Vulkan across all major operating systems as well as some consoles...

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