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Cling C++ Interpreter Looking To Upstream More Code Into LLVM

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 12:01
Not to be confused with Clang as the well known C/C++ compiler front-end for the LLVM compiler, Cling is a separate project as an interactive, JIT-based C++ interpreter. Cling has been in development for years and at least partially is looking to upstream where possible back into LLVM...

Linux Might Pursue x86_64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 04:16
Stemming from the recent GNU glibc work on better handling modern CPU optimizations with newer instruction set extensions across Intel and AMD product families, the concept of x86-64 micro-architecture feature levels is being talked about by open-source/Linux developers...

NVMe ZNS Support Coming To Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 07/11/2020 - 00:16
Landing in the block subsystem's "-next" tree today is ZNS support for NVMe drives...

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs. Intel Core i9 10900K Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 21:30
Following the 130+ benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 3000XT series earlier in the week looking at the CPU/system performance on Ubuntu Linux, here is our first look at the Linux gaming performance with putting the Ryzen 9 3900XT up head-to-head against the Intel Core i9 10900K.

GCC 11 Compiler Lands Intel Sapphire Rapids + Alder Lake Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/10/2020 - 19:34
Landing in the GNU Compiler Collection 11 (GCC 11) codebase this morning is the Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake enablement...

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