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Servo Driving Modularity To Support Different JavaScript Engines

Phoronix - Mon, 04/15/2024 - 19:10
The Rust-based Servo web layout engine started by Mozilla that is now stewarded by the Linux Foundation and worked on by several different organizations is eyeing modularity support for its JavaScript integration. Currently Servo is closely tied to Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine but with a modularity push could see other options supported...

RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression

Phoronix - Mon, 04/15/2024 - 18:44
Xiph.Org has released RNNoise 0.2 as the recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction. This library leverages a neural network model for enhancing real-time noise suppression...

Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience

Phoronix - Mon, 04/15/2024 - 18:32
Archinstall 2.8 is out today as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it much faster deploying this popular Linux distribution...

FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s

Phoronix - Mon, 04/15/2024 - 18:23
FEX 2404 is now available for this open-source emulator project to allow running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) LInux systems. FEX has been one of the leading avenues for opening up gaming on AArch64 Linux hardware, even making use of Wine / Proton (Steam Play) for enjoying Windows x86 games within AArch64 Linux confines...

Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/15/2024 - 18:04
For fans of the Vim text editor, the latest development code has landed support for the XDG Base Directory "XDG_BASE_DIR" specification...

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