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New & Much Improved WireGuard Implementation Comes To FreeBSD

Phoronix - Tue, 03/16/2021 - 01:31
Towards the end of last year FreeBSD imported a WireGuard kernel module. That initial WireGuard port to FreeBSD was sponsored by firewall company Netgate but the code quality was found to be poor and made without much involvement from upstream WireGuard developers. That FreeBSD WireGuard kernel code is now in the process of being replaced by a much better implementation...

AMD AOCC 3.0 Released As Zen 3 Optimized LLVM Clang 12 Based Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 23:46
With today's AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" launch there is also the public availability of AOCC 3.0 as their LLVM/Clang downstream now carrying patches for optimized Zen 3 support...

AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" Linux Benchmarks - Superb Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 23:00
It's been one and a half years already since the EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors launched. It's hard to think it's been that long due not only to the pandemic but the incredible performance of these Zen 2 server processors. The EPYC 7002 series continues to largely outperform Intel's Xeon Scalable processors and while Ice Lake is coming soon, for now AMD is expanding their lead with today's EPYC 7003 "Milan" processor launch. We have begun our testing of AMD EPYC Milan processors in recent weeks under Linux and have preliminary performance figures to share today as well as more information on these next-gen server/HPC processors.

GCC Compiler Sees New Patch With Tuning For AMD Zen 3 (Znver3)

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 19:00
GCC is in the process of seeing better support for AMD Zen 3 processors with its znver3 target...

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