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GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 19:47

Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

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Intel Battlemage Graphics Enjoyed Nice GPU Compute Performance Gains In 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 17:34

In addition to Intel Arrow Lake desktop performance evolving nicely on Linux over the course of 2025, the Intel Arc B-Series graphics that launched last December with the Arc B580 have evolved quite nicely too with their open-source driver stack. With it coming up on one year since the Arc B580 launch, here is a look at how the GPU compute performance has evolved since that point. Similar Intel Arc B580 Linux graphics comparisons are also coming up in a follow-up comparison on Phoronix.

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Zlib-ng 2.3.1 Released With More CPU Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 15:52

Zlib-ng 2.3.1 is out today as the first stable release in the v2.3 series for this Zlib replacement that carries a variety of performance optimizations for speedier compression/decompression...

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Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:49

For those Linux desktop users in the US needing another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, a huge and long-awaited accomplishment is ready for merging to the kernel: the Color Pipeline API that is important for HDR is ready for merging! As of last night the code is queued in DRM-Misc-Next for this years-in-the-making effort...

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GNU C Library Sees Up To 12.9x Improvement With New Generic FMA Implementation

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:30

Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3...

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Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 ISOs Published

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:01

Canonical announced today the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 images as their first monthly ISO snapshots of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

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Common Desktop Environment "CDE" 2.5.3 Released After Two Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 01:43

Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech -- especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive -- CDE 2.5.3 is now available...

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Vulkan's VK_EXT_present_timing Merged After Five Years In The Making

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 01:24

Originally opened in September 2020 by NVIDIA Linux engineer James Jones, tonight the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was finally merged! Five years in the making and incorporating contributions from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Collabora, Samsung, Unity, and Red Hat is this prominent new addition to the Vulkan API...

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Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 20:16

With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver in place of their own former Vulkan Linux driver...