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      PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:35

    A Phoronix Premium supporter recently relayed a request to see some fresh PHP performance benchmarks. So here are some fresh numbers of PHP 7.4 through the latest PHP 8.5 code plus the current Git state of PHP 8.6 ahead of the official PHP 8.6.0 release later in the year. With PHP 8.6 is also a fresh look at the JIT performance enabled too...
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      Linux 7.3 Scheduler Improvements: Help For Gaming, Hybrid CPUs, Lower Scheduler Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    The exciting set of scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 merge window...
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      New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with Zen 4C/5C. That low power core is presumed for some Zen 6 clients and that integration is now merged for Linux 7.3 as well as unifying the Intel/AMD CPU core type handling...
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      Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig Launches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:36

    The newest Raspberry Pi product to launch is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig...
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      Modular's Mojo Language Now Open-Source Following Qualcomm Acquisition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    Modular, the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame, has open-sourced their Mojo systems programming language! This comes following the recent acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:20

    COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
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      Linux 7.3 Adds New "bpf_sock_read_xattr" Feature For systemd, BPF Programs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Merged earlier this year for Linux 7.1 was extended attributes on sockets support as a feature sought after by the likes of GNOME and systemd for helping with Varlink IPC usage and other purposes. A limitation though of the functionality has been no efficient means for a BPF program to read those user extended attribute labels back. But with Linux 7.3 that's being addressed with the new bpf_sock_read_xattr() kernel function...
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      IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...
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      Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" low-end processor while now Framework is adding Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" as an upgrade or for new Laptop 12 orders...