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Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 01:00
Google is announcing today they are contributing $1M USD to the Rust Foundation to focus on enhancing interoperability between the C++ and Rust programming languages...

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Linux Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 00:30
Last week the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics became available in retail channels. The initial launch-day Linux testing was focused on the Ryzen 7 8700G processor, which showed great uplift for the integrated graphics over the Ryzen 5000G series with Vega/GFX9 graphics and the Ryzen 7000 series with their cut-down RDNA2 integrated graphics. In today's article the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is the focus of the Linux testing along with an expanded set of comparison processors re-tested.

Intel Begins Rolling Out APX & AVX10 Binaries For Their Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 22:52
Ahead of any processors being released with support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution is already beginning to roll-out binaries compiled for APX+AVX10 use...

LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:57
While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. OpenMandriva is a well known Linux distribution that for several years has been a Clang-built Linux distribution while for three years now the Chimera Linux distribution has also been relying exclusively on an LLVM toolchain...

PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:43
With PipeWire 1.0 having been released toward the end of last year and is now commonly used by Linux distributions out-of-the-box for managing audio/video streams, you may be wondering about the future plans for this open-source software from Red Hat. Well, Wim Taymans was at FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels and shared some of the plans ahead for PipeWire...

VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Mon, 02/05/2024 - 19:34
A pull request open for the past eight months for implementing a VOPD scheduler for the Valve-developed ACO "AMD Compiler" back-end has now been merged for Mesa 24.1-devel...

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