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xf86-input-mouse 2.0.0 Released 12 Years After v1.9 Mouse Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 18:30
The xf86-input-mouse driver for mouse support when using the X.Orrg Server on operating systems like the BSDs, Illumos, GNU Hurd, and Solaris is out with a rare update...

GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures

Phoronix - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 18:15
Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...

Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction

Phoronix - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 08:15
Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...

Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%

Phoronix - Wed, 08/13/2025 - 04:53
Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput seeing a 70% performance hit. That level of performance cost was unsustainable. But now that I/O overhead has been reduced to just 13%...

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