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Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 00:51
With Mesa 19.3 having been branched yesterday, hitting Git master today as an early change for Mesa 20.0 is an overhaul to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver's buffer object (BO) allocation code...

Khronos Launches An Official Collection Of Vulkan Samples

Phoronix - Fri, 11/01/2019 - 00:20
Tbe Khronos Group has launched the Vulkan Unified Samples Repository, a Git repository on GitHub for Khronos-reviewed, high-quality Vulkan code samples...

Fedora 31 Performance Is Still Sliding In The Wrong Direction - Benchmarks Against Ubuntu 19.10 + Clear Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 21:04
The performance of Fedora 30 on multiple systems has generally been coming up short compared to the likes of Ubuntu, Clear Linux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed. With this week's release of Fedora 31 I was hopeful that the performance would be more competitive to other prominent Linux distributions, but sadly that doesn't appear to be the case. Here are some initial benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 31 compared to Fedora Workstation 30, Clear Linux 31450, and Ubuntu 19.10.

Linux Mint Pulling In MPV-Based Celluloid Media Player + Dropping Last Mono Dependency

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 20:38
Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" will be out before Christmas and continuing to further refine this desktop focused Linux distribution...

SDL Picks Up ARM Optimizations For Helping Games On Devices Like The Raspberry Pi

Phoronix - Thu, 10/31/2019 - 19:51
Gaming on ARM-based boards like the Raspberry Pi will soon have the potential for running much better thanks to a series of ARM Assembly optimizations that were just merged into SDL2...

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