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Open ZL 0. 2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software
56+ min ago (227+ words) Last October engineers at Meta announced Open ZL as a format-aware compression framework. Open ZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. Open ZL is viewed as their next leap…...
Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1. 5x Speedup, Other Improvements
2+ week, 4+ day ago (220+ words) Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4. 1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude…...
Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (221+ words) Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation…...
Harf Buzz 14. 0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (389+ words) Harf Buzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the Free Type project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, Libre Office, and countless other applications. Harf Buzz 14. 0 released today and making this release…...
LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (213+ words) Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed Thin LTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their Thin LTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link....
Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (27+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals...
Go 1. 26 Introduces Two Language Changes, New Performance Improvements
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (110+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Go 1. 26 Introduces Two Language Changes, New Performance Improvements Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix. com and founded the site in 2004 with…...
Intel Releases LLM-Scaler-v LLM 1. 3 With New LLM Model Support
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (137+ words) Intel today released the LLM-Scaler-v LLM 1. 3 update with expanding the array of large language models that can run on Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards with this Docker-based stack for deploying v LLM. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory…...
IO_uring Zero-Copy Large Receive Buffer Support To Provide A Nice Performance Win
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (158+ words) Slated for introduction in the next kernel cycle (Linux 6. 20~7. 0) is introducing large receive buffer support for IO_uring's zero-copy receive code path. This large receive buffer support can be very beneficial for those with higher-end networking hardware capable of handling the…...
Linux 6. 19 Scheduler Feature Being Disabled Due To Performance Regressions
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (148+ words) Queued into tip/tip. git's "sched/urgent" Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler's NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6. 19 merge window. It turns out to cause some performance regressions that have yet to…...