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The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year

Phoronix - Thu, 04/30/2026 - 01:30
Recently I ran benchmarks looking at the Xe2 graphics performance gains on Intel Lunar Lake over the past year with what's shipped by Ubuntu and comparing against our original tests of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition. With those Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks out of the way, here is a look at how the Lunar Lake CPU performance has evolved on Linux since April 2025.

Linux's sched_ext Sees A Bunch Of Bug Fixes Following Increased AI Code Review

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2026 - 23:47
Just days after the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release, the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" is seeing a lot of bug fixes. Many of these bug fixes aren't just from the Linux 7.1 merge window but a number date back many kernel cycles. This uptick in bug fixes for sched_ext is coming due to increased AI code review...

OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2026 - 23:13
Back in 2023 the Vulkan API introduced its initial Cooperative Matrix extension and necessary SPIR-V integration for helping with machine learning / AI inferencing use. Since then the cooperative matrix support has continued to be built upon for helping Vulkan in AI/ML areas. Now the OpenCL API is also introducing similar cooperative matrix extensions...

Rust-Written Zed 1.0 Code Editor Released

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2026 - 23:02
Zed, the cross platform, open-source text/code editor written by the developers behind the Atom editor, has finally reached version 1.0...

Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2026 - 21:14
Merged today to the GCC Git compiler codebase, which will be for GCC 17 rather than the imminent GCC 16.1 stable release, is adding support for the Chinese-manufactured Hygon C86-4G-M4 / C86-4G-M6 / C86-4G-M7 series x86_64 processors...

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