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      Big Throughput Boost & Lower Latency With New Patch For Linux Checksum Function

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 May, 2023

    Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.5 cycle kicking off in about one month is a new Linux x86 optimization patch for further tuning csum_partial, the function used within the kernel for calculating 32-bit checksums on blocks of data. Much lower latency and higher throughput can be observed with the newly-optimized csum_partial on the latest Intel/AMD processors...
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      Qt 5.15 LTS Takes Another Step Closer To Retirement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 May, 2023

    The Qt 5.15 Long-Term Support branch as the last release in the Qt5 series is one step closer to retirement with The Qt Group now having ended its standard support for legacy license holders...
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      sdl12-compat 1.2.64 Released - More Classic Games Now Running On This SDL2 Layer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 May, 2023

    Following the recent sdl12-compat test release, sdl-compat v1.2.64 has been released as the newest version of this library implementing the SDL 1.2 API/ABI atop SDL 2.x interfaces for enhancing game compatibility on modern Linux environments...
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      Mesa 23.1.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes For RADV, Zink, Intel ANV

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 May, 2023

    For those that prefer waiting to the first point release before shifting to a new Mesa3D quarterly feature release, Mesa 23.1.1 is out today so you can now begin upgrading to this latest set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems and elsewhere...
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      PostgreSQL 16 Reaches Beta With Performance Improvements - Including SIMD for x86 & ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 May, 2023

    PostgreSQL 16 is up to its first beta milestone today with new performance optimizations and continued security enhancements...
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      IBM Baking Some Nice Optimizations To EXT4's Multi-Block Allocator

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 May, 2023

    IBM engineers have been working through some multi-block allocator improvements for the EXT4 file-system driver. In particular, they aim to address some shortcomings that were discovered when running various tests on IBM POWER hardware with a 64k block size...
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      AI Processing Unit "APU" Driver For Linux DRM Is Among The Latest Accelerator Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 May, 2023

    Sent out last week by Alexandre Bailon with Bay Libre is the AI Processing Unit "APU" Direct Rendering Manager driver to interface between CPUs and AI Processing Units. The hope is this APU driver could be re-used by various hardware drivers while the initial focus is on bringing up the AI capabilities of the MediaTek MT8183 SoC...
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      Intel Engineers Revise Key Locker Implementation For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 May, 2023

    Going back to 2020 has been work by Intel's open-source engineers on implementing Key Locker support for Linux. Intel Key Locker allows for encrypting/decrypting data with an AES key without having access to the raw/actual key. AES keys are converted into handles with Intel Key Locker that can then be used for carrying out encryption/decryption on that system until revoked or system state changes. Intel engineers on Wednesday posted their seventh iteration of the patches for supporting Key Locker on Linux...
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      Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Now Ships The AMD Graphics Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 May, 2023

    In addition to Microsoft's Build 2023 conference this week where they announced expanded archive/compression format support, Windows Terminal improvements, more AI tech, and other initiatives, they also happened to release CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230518 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution...