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Intel Graphics Compiler Makes More Preparations For DG2/Alchemist & Ponte Vecchio

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 22:19
At the end of November was a big update to Intel's Graphics Compiler while out today is IGC 1.0.9441 as the first update since to this open-source, cross-platform graphics compiler...

Is It Worthwhile Running Intel Alder Lake With mitigations=off?

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 21:36
Over the past month of trying out Intel Alder Lake processors on Linux, one of the questions that has come up a few times but not readily disclosed is whether it's still worthwhile on this latest-generation process to boot with "mitigations=off" to disable CPU security mitigations to help squeeze out some otherwise lost performance. Here are some benchmarks to answer that questions.

RADV Driver Improvement Yields More Reasonably Sized Captures For Radeon GPU Profiling

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 20:11
When debugging graphics driver/API issues or performance profiling and relying on shader dumps, the size of such dumps can quickly add up due to all of the state collected, etc, but also inefficiencies when not within contiguous memory. Fortunately for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for pairing with the Radeon GPU Profiler there is a significant improvement that just landed for yielding smaller file sizes...

Notcurses 3.0 Released For Adding "Bling" To Your Terminal Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 18:43
For those wanting to add some "bling" to your command-line programs to make some "rad" terminal apps, Notcurses 3.0 was released today for designing colorful and complex text-user interfaces. Notcurses allows adding a range of multimedia, Unicode, and other graphics capabilities to command-line applications across Linux / macOS / Windows...

Qt Creator 6 Released For This C++ Focused IDE, Clangd Now Fully-Supported

Phoronix - Thu, 12/02/2021 - 18:16
The Qt Company has officially shipped Qt Creator 6 as the latest major update to their Qt/C++ minded integrated development environment...

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