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      Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22:37

    Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...
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      Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:14

    As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks -- including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration -- today's article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations.
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      Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:11

    The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key Rust programming language developers...
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      Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:26

    Last month Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame. Released today was Mojo 1.1 and also marks the project recently now beginning code contributions from the community to its compiler...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:54

    The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone...
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      Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:17

    The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn't made it to the mainline Linux kernel.... Standardized reporting of video memory statistics that would work across different vendors / kernel graphics drivers. A new proposal was raised today in an effort to get a standardized interface established...
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      Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:42

    For two years now we have been curious about the Fujitsu MONAKA CPU since some slides about this Arm-based server processor first appeared and they upstreamed compiler support in GCC 15. This week Fujitsu formally announced the MONAKA CPU and with availability beginning in November...
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      Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA "PISA"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:05

    Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update...
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      New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:04

    For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support...