GNOME's libspelling library is seeing up to eight times faster spell checking performance thanks to threading and other optimizations.

GNOME's libspelling is a library for providing spell checking support for GTK 4 based applications. Libspellcheck is designed for the likes of the GNOME Text Editor and the GNOME Builder IDE. Christian Hergert on Wednesday released libspelling 0.3 and it delivers faster spell checking performance.

Libspelling 0.3 is now threaded to perform spell checking off the main GTK thread. In spell checking a 10,00

A three month old merge request finally landed in mainline LLVM Git this past week to deliver improvements initially for Intel Meteor Lake processors.

Merged for LLVM 20 are topology and affinity changes to LLVM's OpenMP run-time that were optimized for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors but should benefit the upcoming Lunar Lake processors too.

As expected , AMD has released ROCm 6.2 as the newest version of their open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon graphics cards and Instinct accelerators. ROCm 6.2 is a big update with several new software components, improving the existing PyTorch and TensorFlow support, and a variety of other enhancements as AMD works to better compete with NVIDIA's CUDA.

The new components to ROCm 6.2 are Omniperf, Omnitrace, rocPyDecode, and the ROCprofiler SDK. Omniperf is a kernel-level profiling tool for machine