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Python 3.14 Performance Looking Good In Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 21:27
With this week's release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other enhancements I have been eager to run some benchmarks seeing how Python 3.14 compares to prior Python releases.

NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 20:23
Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization "vGPU" support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag...

Microsoft Hyper-V Support Further Improved With Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 18:54
Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization support within the Linux kernel continues to be steadily enhanced and it's inched along further for Linux 6.18...

GCC Patches Posted For C++26 SIMD Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 18:32
One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. This portable SIMD implementation makes it easier to leverage SIMD and data parallelism in C++ for better performance and to work across SIMD architectures like AVX-512...

New Input Drivers Merged For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Fri, 10/10/2025 - 18:24
In addition to last week's HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subsystem pull was merged this week to introduce a few new input drivers...

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