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Clang 20 Compiler Adds Support For Xtensa CPU Target

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 19:33
Back in early 2023 an Xtensa back-end was added to LLVM for the Cadence Tensilica Xtensa IP. Xtensa is used for DSPs, micro-controllers, and this 32-bit RISC architecture is also used for other hardware like data processing engines. Two years after the LLVM back-end was introduced, the Clang C/C++ compiler has added Xtensa target support...

FreeBSD Collaborating With AMD, NetBSD 10.0 Release & Other BSD Highlights Of 2024

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 19:15
While predominantly covering Linux-related news and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the BSDs hold a special spot. Here's a look back at some of the most exciting BSD milestones and FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD project news of 2024...

10 High-Paying Jobs That AI Won’t Replace in 2025

Tecmint - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 13:42
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries, automating repetitive tasks, and reshaping the global workforce. Despite its remarkable advancements, certain professions

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Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 09:25
In addition to all the GNOME advancements and KDE excitement with shipping Plasma 6 this year, other alternative open-source desktop environments enjoyed much success too this year... System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution reached alpha form, Xfce 4.20 released earlier this month, LXQt 2.0 and 2.1 debuted, and other improvements too...

Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented With For Linux Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 04:04
Tvrtko Ursulin with Igalia sent out a "request for comments" patch series today working on a deadline scheduling policy for the DRM scheduler that is used across different Direct Rendering Manager kernel graphics drivers...

Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 01:30
As part of my end-of-year benchmarking and various historical comparisons, over the holidays I was curious to take a look at how the mature AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" performance has evolved over the past two years under Linux. Going off benchmarks I ran back at the end of 2022 on the same AMD Titanite EPYC reference server platform for two EPYC 9654 Genoa processors, I repeated the same tests using the newest releases of Intel Clear Linux and Ubuntu Linux for seeing how the performance has evolved.

Cloudflare Makes Open-Source h3i For HTTP/3 Testing & Debugging

Phoronix - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 00:27
Cloudflare is ending 2024 by announcing a new open-source project: h3i for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging...

Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4

Phoronix - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 22:00
The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 support, the continued progress of the open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, and much more thanks to the contributions of Intel, AMD, Valve, and other organizations -- even Microsoft's continued merge requests!..

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