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Linux 6.11 "MM" Patches Include Many Improvements, A 10x Speedup For One Optimization

Phoronix - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 22:53
Andrew Morton on Sunday sent in his "MM" pull requests for Linux 6.11 of the areas of the kernel he manages...

GNU C Library 2.40 Released With New C23 Features & New Performance Tunables

Phoronix - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 20:30
GNU C Library "glibc" 2.40 is now available with more C23 features being enabled as well as some new performance tunables on x86_64 and AArch64 along with other improvements to this widely used libc implementation...

LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups

Phoronix - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 19:04
Yann Collet released LZ4 v1.10 today as a major update to this extremely fast compression algorithm. Most significant with LZ4 1.10 is adding multi-threaded compression support for much faster performance with today's modern multi-core processors...

systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage

Phoronix - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 18:52
In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd's Automatic Boot Assessment functionality...

Kalray Updates Patches For Their Linux Kernel Port To The KV3-1 "Coolidge" SoC

Phoronix - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 18:35
Way back at the start of 2023, French fabless semiconductor company Kalray posted Linux kernel patches for a "KVX" Linux kernel port to get Linux up and running on their MPPA3-80 "Coolidge" DPU SoC with the KV3-1 CPU architecture. A year and a half later this work still is outside the Linux kernel but finally a third iteration of the KVX Linux kernel port has been posted for review...

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