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dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations
Dav1d 1.3 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this widely-used, open-source AV1 video decoder...
KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland
October is off to a great start as February inches closer for what's expected to bring the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop release...
OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-simd-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x
Earlier this year Intel posted x86-simd-sort as a blazing fast sorting library that makes use of AVX-512. When the popular Numpy began using it they found up to 10~17x faster sorts for 16-bit to 64-bit data types. Today Intel software engineers released x86-simd-sort 3.0 and it also comes minutes after OpenJDK merged a modified version of this speeding sorting code into that reference JDK codebase...
Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension
Vulkan 1.3.267 was published this morning with two new extensions...
AMD OpenSIL Will Be Talked About Later This Month At The 2023 OCP Global Summit
Earlier this year at the OCP Regional Summit in Prague AMD first presented openSIL as their new open-source CPU silicon initialization effort that can integrate with Coreboot and open-source boot firmware solutions. AMD openSIL is currently being prototyped on Genoa platforms but in a few years will eventually replace AGESA on both client and server processors. Later this month at the OCP Global Summit, there will be a new presentation on AMD openSIL...
LLVM Merges Initial Support For OpenMP Kernel Language
Merged to LLVM 18 Git yesterday was the initial support for the OpenMP kernel language, an effort around having performance portable GPU codes as an alternative to the likes of the proprietary CUDA...
FEX-Emu 2310 Released With Performance Optimizations, WOW64 Wine Frontend
A new version of FEX-Emu has been released, the open-source project aiming to be "the greatest x86/x86_64 emulator on Linux" that includes the ability to run Steam and Steam Play Windows games on AArch64 Linux systems...