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Intel AMX Programming Model Lands In LLVM Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 22:00
One of the big features to look forward to with Intel's Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" is the introduction of AMX as the Advanced Matrix Extensions. While Sapphire Rapids looks to be at least one year out still, the company's open-source compiler engineers have already been hard at work on the software infrastructure support...

AMD Has Some Last Minute Updates For The AMDGPU Driver In Linux 5.11

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 20:49
The Linux 5.11 merge window is expected to open next week and while AMD has already queued several rounds of updates into DRM-Next ahead of that period, some last minute items were submitted overnight for this next Linux kernel version and what will be the first major kernel release of 2021...

PowerPC 40x Support Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 19:27
Following the original, first-generation PowerPC CPU support being removed in the Linux 5.10 kernel, the original PowerPC 400 series is also looking like it will now be removed as well from the kernel...

Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver Seeing Faster Blit Support Come Mesa 21.0

Phoronix - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 16:27
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan driver is on quite a streak lately. In addition to inclusion in Mesa 20.3, Vulkan 1.0 conformance, and Wayland support, more performance work is being pursued with those initial milestones reached...

Why Java developers love the jEdit text editor

opensource.com - Thu, 12/10/2020 - 16:01

Java is a powerful language. Maybe because it’s often seen as an "industrial-strength" tool, you might not expect it to be the foundation of a text editor. After all, text editing is almost too easy for such power. In fact, in most modern programming toolkits, the component accepting text entry is a pre-programmed widget. Using a Java toolkit, a simple text editor can be written in about 100 lines of code. So what can jEdit possibly offer to justify its existence?


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