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Microsoft Has Now Open-Source Their BASIC Code From 1983

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 09:31
Adding to Microsoft's wild ride this week after announcing Linux GUI apps for WSL2 and in turn writing their own Wayland compositor, Direct3D sort of for WSL2/Linux, and other announcements out of BUILD 2020, the company has announced the open-sourcing of their original BASIC implementation...

Wine's Direct3D Vulkan Back-End Continues Seeing An Uptick In Activity

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 07:37
Last month we reported on Wine's Direct3D Vulkan back-end seeing new activity as an alternative to the project's mature Direct3D-to-OpenGL path. Over the course of May work on this Vulkan back-end has edged only even higher...

Linux 5.8 Prepped To Make Use Of TPAUSE Instruction With New Intel CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 05:47
TPAUSE is the new instruction supported by Intel's Tremont microarchitecture and beyond. TPAUSE allows for an optimized state that can provide low wake-up latency compared to existing delay mechanisms. With Linux 5.8, the kernel will begin making use of TPAUSE where supported...

Dav1d 0.7 Released With More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2020 - 01:28
The VideoLAN team responsible for the dav1d AV1 video decoder have just released dav1d 0.7 as the newest feature release and it comes with more performance optimizations...

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