Development: Languages and GNU
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About "dnf repomanage" performance regression
Warning: this article can be a troll, but php is faster than python.
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SD Times news digest: Webpack 4 beta, Android Wear SDK 2.2.0, and GCC 7.3 released
The GNU Project and GCC developers have announced the release of GCC 7.3. GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection. This is a bug fix release as it has important fixes for regressions and bugs in GCC 7.2. It has more than 99 bugs fixed since the previous release of GCC.
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Linux distros: love, openwashing & the thousand yard stare
The Linux operating system (OS) will turn 30 in the year 2021.
We know that Linus Torvalds first penned (typed) his work plans for what turned out to be Linux on a Usenet posting as follows:
“I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU) for 386(486) AT clones,” wrote Torvalds.
No brief history of Linux is needed here, there are plenty of write ups detailing the origins of UNIX, MINIX, the birth of GNU and Richard Stallman’s creation of the GNU General Public License.
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Glibc 2.27 Is Being Released Soon With Numerous Performance Optimizations
Glibc 2.27 will be released as soon as next week as the latest half-year update to the GNU C Library.
The Glibc 2.27 cycle has been very heavy on performance optimizations. As covered recently, there's been AVX2/FMA optimizations, other optimized functions, numerous FMA optimizations, and more. Long story short, if you're running a recent AMD/Intel x86_64 CPU, there are chances you could see good performance improvements out of Glibc 2.27.
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