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      LLVM 16.0 Released With New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

    LLVM 16 was released on Friday night as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source compiler stack. From initial AMD Zen 4 support to bringing up new Intel CPU instruction sets and processor targets for their new processors being introduced through 2024, there is a lot of exciting hardware additions in LLVM 16.0. LLVM 16.0 is also notable for faster LLD linking, Zstd compressed debug sections, stabilizing of its LoongArch target, defaulting to C++17 for Clang, and much more. Here's a look at all the exciting changes of LLVM 16...
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      KDE Delivers More Wayland Fixes & Plasma 6.0 Changes This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

    KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary that highlights all of the interesting desktop changes made over the course of the past seven days. This week he particularly calls out more Wayland fixes -- a common occurrence in the KDE camp...
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      Wine 8.4 Released With The Early Wayland Graphics Driver Code, 51 Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    Wine 8.4 is out as the newest version of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...
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      Firmware Assisted Shadowing Code Posted For AMD RDNA3 - Needed For SR-IOV

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    A new patch series posted today is of interest and is for firmware-assisted shadowing for AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors as it's necessary for proper SR-IOV support...
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      Amazon Linux 2023 Is Running Well, Boosting EC2 Performance Over Amazon Linux 2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    For those currently making use of Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) as the operating system for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the newly-released Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) is delivering some worthwhile speed-ups for maximizing your performance and value in their public cloud.
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      Still Have A Use For Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working To Safely Emulate It In Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    While Adobe Flash is officially -- and thankfully -- dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language...
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      Intel Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    Last week following the Linux 6.3-rc1 release Intel engineers already began sending new Intel i915 driver feature code to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.4 merge window in early May. This week another batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" material was submitted...
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      Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block...
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      Codon Looks Very Promising For Super-Fast Python Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

    While there is Pyston, PyPy, and various other alternative Python implementations being done in the name of performance, Codon is one of the newer ones and is talking up 10~100x faster performance...