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GCC 11 vs. LLVM Clang 12 Compilers On The AMD EPYC 7763

Phoronix - Wed, 05/05/2021 - 01:18
For those wondering how the recent releases of the GCC 11 and LLVM 12 (Clang 12) open-source compilers are competing on AMD Zen 3, here are some recently conducted benchmarks looking at that showdown on an AMD EPYC 7763 1P server.

Linux's Perf Tools Prepares For Intel Alder Lake, Adds New AMD Zen 3 Events

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 23:27
Linux's perf tooling for dealing with hardware performance counters and associated monitoring has seen a number of nice updates for the Linux 5.13 kernel cycle...

Apache OpenOffice Vulnerable To One-Click Code Execution

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 21:10
If you are still relying on Apache OpenOffice in 2021 you might want to really make it a goal this year to transition to the much more featureful LibreOffice, but in any case you'll want to move at least to OpenOffice 4.1.10...

A Fresh Take On Speculative Page Faulting Aims For The Mainline Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 19:30
Over the years there have been a number of rounds of patches published for speculative page faulting. The goal has been to support user-space page-faults without holding the memory management semaphores and to ultimately allow for better performance especially with threaded workloads. A fresh take on the speculative page faulting (SPF) functionality was recently volleyed on the kernel mailing list...

Mesa Fixes Up The Recent L3 Cache Pinning Rework

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 18:26
Going on for a few years now has been some Mesa optimizations for AMD Ryzen CPUs and in particular L3 cache optimizations. There is now a fix to re-enable this support after it was mistakenly broken earlier this year...

F2FS Adds New Mount Options With Linux 5.13, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 18:07
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for Linux 5.13 have been submitted in providing the latest features for this flash-optimized file-system...

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