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The New OpenBenchmarking.org Now In Alpha For Better Hardware & Benchmark Discovery

Phoronix - Thu, 08/20/2020 - 00:30
As alluded to previously, a major overhaul of OpenBenchmarking.org has been in the works for a number of months now including a completely brand new analytics engine as part of the Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 development with its release due out later this year. With the new OpenBenchmarking.org now in good enough shape at least for the internal infrastructure, this new version is being opened up to the public today while over the weeks ahead more features will continue to be flipped on.

Fedora 33 LTO Support Is Now In Good Shape For Faster, Smaller Packages

Phoronix - Wed, 08/19/2020 - 21:55
Fedora's plans to make use of link-time optimizations (LTO) by default with the GCC compiler when building Fedora 33 packages is looking like it will successfully pan out...

GraalVM 20.2 Released With Compile Time Improvements, Better Error Reporting

Phoronix - Wed, 08/19/2020 - 19:12
Oracle engineers have released a new version of GraalVM, their Java virtual machine that supports JIT compilation, ahead-of-time compilation with GraalVM Native Image, an LLVM runtime, JavaScript runtime, and other language support like Python and R...

Red Hat Bringing Multipath TCP To RHEL 8.3 As A Tech Preview

Phoronix - Wed, 08/19/2020 - 18:49
Red Hat confirmed today it is bringing Multipath TCP (MPTCP) to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 as a "tech preview" feature...

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