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Intel Has Been Working On OpenCL C 3.0 Support For Clang

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 05:26
Intel's compiler experts in Moscow have been working on OpenCL C 3.0 support for the LLVM Clang compiler front-end...

Mali G72 Now Supported By Open-Source Panfrost Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/30/2020 - 01:14
The open-source Panfrost graphics driver, which is now backed/supported by Arm after starting as a reverse-engineering effort, has picked up support for the Mali G72 GPU...

Initial Fedora 32 vs. Fedora 33 Beta Benchmarks Point To Slightly Higher Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 23:00
In addition to Fedora Workstation 33 switching to Btrfs, there are a number of key components updated in Fedora 33 as well as finally enabling link-time optimizations (LTO) for package builds that make this next Fedora Linux installment quite interesting from a performance perspective. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 32 against the Fedora Workstation 33 Beta on an Intel Core i9 10900K system.

Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs

Phoronix - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 21:40
The beta of Fedora 33 is available this morning ahead of the official release expected at the end of October for this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution...

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