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A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (203+ words) In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (216+ words) With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD,…...
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (251+ words) ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source…...
Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations
1+ week, 2+ day ago (227+ words) A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is…...
GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V
1+ week, 3+ day ago (214+ words) As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early…...
Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming
3+ week, 5+ day ago (238+ words) Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in…...