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OpenZFS 2.2-rc5 Released With More Fixes & Linux 6.5 Compatibility

Phoronix - Sun, 10/08/2023 - 01:44
The OpenZFS 2.2 release candidates are dragging on with the fifth test release having debuted on Saturday to provide some additional fixes and support for the Linux 6.5 stable kernel...

Intel oneDNN 3.3 Brings More Performance Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids / AMX

Phoronix - Sun, 10/08/2023 - 00:51
In addition to x86-simd-sort 3.0 being released for speedy AVX-512 sorting, Friday also brought the release of oneDNN 3.3 as the deep neural network library that is part of oneAPI and focused on helping developers build out deep learning applications...

Chrome 119 Beta Released With CSS Relative Color Syntax, WebSQL Disabled

Phoronix - Sun, 10/08/2023 - 00:24
Google engineers on Friday promoted Chrome 119 to its beta stage with some interesting features in tow...

dav1d 1.3 Yields Lower Memory Use, More Arm NEON Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 10/07/2023 - 20:28
Dav1d 1.3 was released on Friday as the newest feature update to this widely-used, open-source AV1 video decoder...

KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 10/07/2023 - 18:30
October is off to a great start as February inches closer for what's expected to bring the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop release...

OpenJDK Merges Intel's x86-simd-sort For Speeding Up Data Sorting 7~15x

Phoronix - Sat, 10/07/2023 - 05:10
Earlier this year Intel posted x86-simd-sort as a blazing fast sorting library that makes use of AVX-512. When the popular Numpy began using it they found up to 10~17x faster sorts for 16-bit to 64-bit data types. Today Intel software engineers released x86-simd-sort 3.0 and it also comes minutes after OpenJDK merged a modified version of this speeding sorting code into that reference JDK codebase...

Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 10/07/2023 - 01:24
Vulkan 1.3.267 was published this morning with two new extensions...

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