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Zhaoxin Preparing Preferred Core Support For Their CPUs On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 23:13
Similar to Intel and AMD processors with not all cores necessarily being created equal, Zhaoxin engineers are working on plumbing preferred core support for their processors into the Linux kernel...

GCC 13 vs. Clang 17 Compiler Benchmarks, Early Clang 18 & GCC 14 Development Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 20:27
As it's been a while since last delivering any competitive GCC versus LLVM Clang compiler competitive analysis and with the year quickly drawing a close, here's a fresh look at the GCC vs. Clang C/C++ compiler performance of various resulting application binaries tested on x86_64. GCC 13 vs. Clang 17 were tested as what's readily available on Ubuntu 23.10 Linux plus a look ahead in using the latest GCC 14 and LLVM Clang 18 development snapshots as of this week.

Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023

Phoronix - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 17:00
After looking yesterday at the most popular Linux hardware reviews of 2023, here is a look at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the more than 2,780 original news articles authored on Phoronix this calendar year...

Mesa 23.3.2 Released With Plenty Of Bug Fixes For Closing Out 2023

Phoronix - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 10:42
Eric Engestrom has issued an on-time bi-weekly point release for the Mesa 3D graphics drivers today principally composed of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers commonly used by the Linux desktop...

Immutable - Hackaday

Google News - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 08:02
Immutable  Hackaday

How to back up Ubuntu - XDA Developers

Google News - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 01:00
How to back up Ubuntu  XDA Developers

Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/27/2023 - 20:00
One of the exciting innovations currently being explored by Canonical ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release is an x86-64-v3 build of the OS / packages. The x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level makes AVX/AVX2 support assumed by default as well as other modern x86_64 ISA features typically common of AMD and Intel processors the past number of years (with exceptions). Canonical's determination around what to do with a possible complementary Ubuntu x86-64-v3 build/archive is still being determined but they had released an experimental Ubuntu 23.04 based build that I decided to take for some benchmarking.

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