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Ruby 3.4 Programming Language Brings "it", Better Performance For YJIT

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 December, 2024

Ruby 3.4 is out today as yet another annual major feature release for this programming language known for its major updates on Christmas Day...

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New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 December, 2024

While there has been Vulkan Video support within Intel's open-source "ANV" driver since early 2023 and extended over time to handle H.265/HEVC decode, H.264 and H.265 encode, and more, the AV1 decode support has lagged behind until now...

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CachyOS Had A Really Great Year Advancing This Performance-Optimized Arch Linux Platform

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 December, 2024

The CachyOS Linux distribution has really been on fire this year delivering impressive new features and performance optimizations for this Arch Linux derived OS...

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Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

With 2024 drawing quickly toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux kernel news of the year ranging from exciting performance optimizations and new features such as QR code error messages over to kernel drama around Russian kernel developers, Bcachefs disturbances, and the contentious growing Rust programming language use within the kernel...

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SDL3 Adds Cross-Platform System Tray Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

A new feature landing in the SDL3 software/hardware abstraction library today that is commonly used by cross-platform games is a native system tray implementation that works across operating systems...

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BIOS Optimizations For AMD 5th Gen EPYC Yield Greater HPC Performance & Power Efficiency

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

Using the 5th Gen EPYC BIOS tuning guide published by AMD, I recently looked at the impact of AI and machine learning optimized performance by adjusting some simple BIOS knobs as well as the Java throughput, latency and power efficiency for the EPYC 9005 class processors. In this article is following the AMD BIOS tuning guide to see what performance difference there is for high performance computing (HPC) workloads following the BIOS tuning recommendations compared to the defaults with an AMD EPYC 9575F server.

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AMD GPU Driver Engineer Marek Olšák Lands Mesa 25.0 Optimizations For Christmas

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

Longtime open-source Radeon graphics driver developer Marek Olšák that is well known for his Mesa improvements over the years and countless optimizations even before being employed by AMD has seen some exciting patches merged just in time for Christmas...

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Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Production Support For Battlemage GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.48.31907.7 just released a few minutes ago as a Christmas Eve treat for Intel Linux graphics compute users. This updated open-source OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero driver stack now advertises production support for Battlemage (BMG / Xe2) discrete graphics along with other optimization and feature work...

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Uncached Buffered I/O Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.14 With Big Gains

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 December, 2024

Linux I/O expert and storage expert Jens Axboe of Meta is hoping to have the uncached buffered I/O support squared away for Linux 6.14 -- a feature that's been a half-decade in the making...