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LibreOffice Enables Multi-Threaded 3D Rendering

Phoronix - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 22:12
The latest LibreOffice drawing code has enabled support for making use of multi-threaded 3D rendering...

NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 21:35
Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use...

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango

Phoronix - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 18:43
BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant...

AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler

Phoronix - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 18:30
AMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators...

Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays

Phoronix - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 08:15
With the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem changes sent out today for the Linux 6.9 kernel, there is support for larger console fonts to better handle today's ~4K displays...

Fedora Linux 40 Beta Cleared For Release Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 03/22/2024 - 04:39
After not making its early beta target for 12 March and then failing to make its intended release date of 19 March, Fedora Linux 40 Beta is now cleared for releasing next week...

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