Render batching is important for lowering CPU overhead and increasing overall efficiency by allowing multiple calls to be combined into a single draw call on the GPU. When dealing with the same material this can lead to a
SDL3 Now Implements Render Batching For Direct3D, Metal & Vulkan
Render batching is important for lowering CPU overhead and increasing overall efficiency by allowing multiple calls to be combined into a single draw call on the GPU. When dealing with the same material this can lead to a
AMD Posts New "amd_vpci" Accelerator Driver For Linux
AMD Embedded+ was initially announced last year for combining Ryzen Embedded processors with AMD Versal AI Edge Adaptive SoCs onto the same PCB. AMD Embedded+ is designed for industrial PCs / automation
EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
This audio effects desktop manager is now aligned with the Qt, QML, and KDE/Kirigami frameworks
GNU Coreutils 9.9 Brings Numerous Fixes
GNU Coreutils 9.9 is primarily about shipping various bug fixes compared to Coreutils 9.8 and prior. Among the fixes were addressing a performance issue with the cp command for transparently compressed files with at least the OpenZFS file-system.
There are also other minor fixes, numfmt now accepts the --unit-separator
Google Cloud N4D Delivers Great VM Performance & Value Powered By AMD EPYC Turin
Google Cloud today is rolling out their N4D compute instances that are optimized for cost/price-performance and geared for general purpose workloads. The N4D instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors and offer very nice performance and value over their prior-generation general purpose VMs.
Can openSUSE Tumbleweed Compete With CachyOS Performance?
Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution's select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it's been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mix for seeing how the performance
Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed
Most notable with Firefox 145.0 is 32-bit Linux support being dropped . Firefox 144 and Firefox 140 ESR are the last series with 32-bit Linux support so Mozilla can focus solely on 64-bit.
POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem
A set of nine patches were sent out by Biggers to migrate the POLYVAL code to the lib/crypto area of the kernel and to replace a generic implementation of POLYVAL with a superior implementation.
The key takeaway from this work:
"Notably, this series improves the performance of HCTR
Tencent Proposes Semantics-Aware vCPU Scheduling For Over-Subscribed KVM Linux VMs
A set of ten patches were posted today to deal with KVM and scheduler limitations within the Linux kernel around over-subscribed VMs running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). The patches implement a scheduler vCPU debooster and KVM IPI-aware directed yield support. These new mechanisms are designed for minimal overhead and from Tencent's view is superior to other para-virtualization approaches.
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Fish 4.2 Shell Brings Interactive Improvements, Updated Rust Minimum Version
Since Fish 4.0 the shell was rewritten from C++ to Rust . With Fish 4.2, the minimum supported Rust version is bumped to Rust 1.85. Fish 4.2's history-based auto-suggestions now include multi-line commands, a transient prompt containing more lines than the final prompt will now be cleared properly, various language translation updates,