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New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen 9000 series, Ryzen AI 300 series, or EPYC 9005 server processors...

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cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...

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GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...

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Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February, 2025

While having missed the mark last week for making it into this quarter's Mesa 25.0 release, merged for Q2's Mesa 25.1 release by Microsoft engineers are some enhancements to the Direct3D 12 video encode capabilities...

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GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader...

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An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

With Linux 6.14-rc1 released I have begun trying out the new development kernel on a few systems locally. At least for high core count hardware tested thus far, Linux 6.14 at the moment during this early testing phase is sporting some performance regressions within some multi-threaded workloads.

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Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decoding For AMD GPUs On Linux By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this next iteration of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is finally enabling hardware video acceleration by default for AMD GPUs on Linux...

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FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

Landing this week in the FFmpeg open-source library that is widely-used by multimedia applications was NVIDIA video acceleration improvements for Blackwell GPUs. Over on the AMD side, there are also some interesting changes to have been merged this week into upstream FFmpeg...

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Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February, 2025

While the Linux kernel itself may not be often viewed as a bottleneck to typical high performance computing (HPC) workloads, optimizing the Linux kernel with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) can prove worthwhile for those seeking maximum performance potential. A presentation this past weekend at FOSDEM 2025 is highlighting around a 3% performance gain for HPC software compiled with PGO enabled...

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