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PHP 7.4 Aims For Release In Two Weeks With FFI, Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 11/15/2019 - 05:19
The sixth and final release candidate of PHP 7.4 is now available with it being on track for the general availability release before month's end...

Zombieload V2 TAA Performance Impact Benchmarks On Cascade Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 11/14/2019 - 21:28
While this week we have posted a number of benchmarks on the JCC Erratum and its CPU microcode workaround that introduces new possible performance hits, also being announced this week as part of Intel's security disclosures was "Zombieload Variant Two" as the TSX Async Abort vulnerability that received same-day Linux kernel mitigations. I've been benchmarking the TAA mitigations to the Linux kernel since the moment they hit the public Git tree and here are those initial benchmark results on an Intel Cascade Lake server.

Darktable 3.0 RC1 Released With Greater Undo/Redo Support, More SSE Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 11/14/2019 - 20:29
Darktable 3.0 is coming soon as the next major release for this open-source RAW photography workflow software...

GCC 7.5 Released With 215+ Bug Fixes As The Last Update To GCC7

Phoronix - Thu, 11/14/2019 - 20:17
For those still on the GCC 7 series, GCC 7.5 was released this morning as the final point release to this compiler series with that branch that saw its original release in 2017 now closed...

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