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    Phoronix: AMD Wires Its New Runtime Linker Into RadeonSI Gallium3D

    At the start of May there were the initial patches out of AMD for implementing a better runtime linker in its graphics stack. That code has now been merged into Mesa 19.2 and is being used by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

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  • #2
    Originally posted by atomsymbol
    nhaehnle: If a user upgrades to mesa-git now without upgrading other parts of the system (Linux kernel, llvm, libdrm, etc) will it translate to better performance in some games - or does the new runtime linker require future versions of the Linux kernel and LLVM?
    Mesa-git wont give you huge perf boost either way. Maybe 1 fps boost. But it is always recommended to run it with newest LLVM and kernel itself may give some boost but its unlikely now.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by atomsymbol
      nhaehnle: If a user upgrades to mesa-git now without upgrading other parts of the system (Linux kernel, llvm, libdrm, etc) will it translate to better performance in some games - or does the new runtime linker require future versions of the Linux kernel and LLVM?
      Only rarely do single optimizations translate into noticeably better performance.
      Generally you'd want the whole stack from git then (LLVM, mesa, X, ...).
      Usually that's just not worth the trouble. Stick with the latest release and you'll be fine.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by atomsymbol
        nhaehnle: If a user upgrades to mesa-git now without upgrading other parts of the system (Linux kernel, llvm, libdrm, etc) will it translate to better performance in some games - or does the new runtime linker require future versions of the Linux kernel and LLVM?
        Have a look into ML thread.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by atomsymbol

          Unfortunately, I don't know what you mean.
          Yah, sorry there are at least 2 threads in the ML...
          ...the second is OpenCL + new linker related:
          Look here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...ne/220175.html

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          • #6
            Originally posted by nuetzel View Post

            Yah, sorry there are at least 2 threads in the ML...
            ...the second is OpenCL + new linker related:
            Look here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...ne/220175.html
            I was trying to figure out what you were talking about even with this clarification, wondering what this had to do with Machine Learning... until I realized you meant Mailing List.

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