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Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes

Phoronix - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 02:00
The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality...

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 23:37
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 23:14
Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE)...

DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 21:26
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play compknent that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs...

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 20:45
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler...

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