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      Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 05:00

    Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts...
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      Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 23:03

    Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November...
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      Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 22:55

    Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...
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      NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 15:58

    NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware...
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      Linux Patches Improve Intel Nested VM Memory Performance Up To ~2353x In Synthetic Test

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:48

    AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM's VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark...
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      Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:31

    Merged this week to the GNU C Library "glibc" code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware...
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      Google Looks To Bring JPEG-XL Support Back To Chrome / Chromium

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:10

    Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser...
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      GCC Steering Committee Allows New Language Front-End To Land For GCC 16

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 01:36

    Joining Ada, C/C++, COBOL, D, Fortran, Go, Modula-2, Objective-C/Objective-C++ and Rust is now another programming language expected to be added for the GCC 16 compiler release due out in the new year...
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      RISC-V Testing Lapse Resulted In Wrong MIPS RISC-V Vendor ID Landing In Linux 6.18

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 22:24

    An interesting anecdote from this week's batch of RISC-V fixes for the Linux 6.18 kernel exposed that the MIPS RISC-V/JEDEC vendor ID was wrong for code merged at the start of the kernel cycle. The testing hadn't caught it either as the QEMU emulation also ended up inadvertently using the wrong vendor ID too...