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OpenJDK 15 Reaches GA With Garbage Collector Promotions, Tossing Out Solaris + SPARC

Phoronix - Wed, 09/16/2020 - 00:07
OpenJDK 15 is out today as the latest general availability release for this open-source Java implementation...

IBM Contributing A2O Processor Core To OpenPOWER Community

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 23:04
IBM announced today at the OpenPOWER Summit 2020 that they are contributing the A2O POWER processor core and Open Cognitive Environment to the OpenPOWER community...

Vulkan Present Timing Extension With Aim To Avoid Stuttering

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 22:46
The Vulkan System Integration working group has decided to publish their work-in-progress extension on VK_EXT_present_timing as their effort to expose the presentation engine's display details and better allow scheduling a present to happen at a specific time...

Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.4944 Brings Many Minor Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 21:48
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Linux OpenCL/Level-Zero compute stack as well as now being used by their Windows graphics driver and potentially their Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers in the future is out with a new release...

Lightworks Software Now Independent Of EditShare

Phoronix - Tue, 09/15/2020 - 18:57
For just over a decade the Lightworks high-end, cross-platform video editing software has been owned by EditShare after it was acquired from Gee Broadcast. Now though LWKS Software Ltd has been established and acquired this video editing software from EditShare...

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