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  • #11
    > arguably most interesting once there is working mainline graphics acceleration support

    > Video Decoder TBA
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    • #12
      Originally posted by anarki2 View Post

      Not in the slightest, the dude just mentioned earlier that there's a generic regression trend in current Linux kernel releases, so it has nothing to do with Apple. I'm sorry it won't fit your narrative this time
      You misunderstood him, he did not doubt the regression in Linux, he just pointed out that there is also a performance regression on new OSX versions. But that is nothing new for apple, it also effected MacOS, 9.2 was very slow on my G3.
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      • #13
        Hector Martin commented for this:
        Hector Martin (@[email protected])
        https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109465733912659889
        So Phoronix put out an article saying Asahi Linux got slower over the past few months, but I tried a few tests that supposedly regressed and I cannot reproduce it. For example, on ALS movie lens, his results are 7581 and 12132. I got 7615 on my M2 Air (less is better). On zstd comp L3 long, he got 265 -> 245, I got 278 (more is better). L3 short, 3620 -> 3420, I got 3567 (more is better). GIMP unsharp-mask, 14.97 -> 18.97, I got 14.93 (less is better). I'm not sure where the variance comes from, but I don't have a whole lot of confidence in his results. If you identify a specific regression traceable to e.g. specific kernel versions, please let us know - but otherwise take Phoronix' results with a grain of salt. I did notice that a lot of the tests I was running (that supposedly regressed) were ostensibly CPU tests and were spawning >8 threads but then not able to use all 8 CPUs fully (sometimes only 50% or less), which is unexpected for a well-designed CPU-bound test. That tells me there are synchronization issues or other problems that prevent the tests from fully utilizing the hardware. This is even more important on big.LITTLE platforms, since you can end up with the OS scheduling critical threads on the efficiency cores that end up blocking the performance cores (the OS has no way of knowing which threads will take more time or are the critical ones, to put them on the faster cores). When you have stuff like that going on, it can add a lot of uncertainty and noise to your measurements. Also remember that the M2 Air is a fanless machine and therefore affected by ambient temperature, surface, and surrounding airflow, since it can throttle when fully utilized. Edit: I could repro the cryptsetup PBKDF2-sha512 post-regression results. That one uses system cryptsetup, so it's likely a code/compiler change that legitimately regressed performance of that binary in Arch Linux ARM, nothing to do with our kernels or anything Asahi-specific.
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        • #14
          Originally posted by ostree shill View Post
          Hector Martin commented for this:
          https://social.treehouse.systems/@ma...65733912659889
          People leaving Twitter for Mastodon because Twitter is too toxic ... only to make toxic accusations on Mastodon.
          le dek (@[email protected])
          https://piaille.fr/@dek/109465761210892103
          @[email protected] So, #Phoronix still doesn't know how to benchmark properly and still publishes half-assed articles just for the sake of a good headline... Nothing new here, but still disappointing.

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