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ESR is a GNU dev ?...

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Eight projects for Blender accepted, that's a very nice turnout!

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The performance aspect was a red herring, they wanted to switch to a single toolchain (they deprecated Visual Studio as well) in order to make it easier...

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Just got my Firefox addons back, had to enable 'Firefox Data Collection and Use' and the suboption 'Allow Firefox to install and run studies' to get the...

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DRM has nothing to do with the codec, it's handled in the container, you can have DRM with VP9 and AV1 as well. Also HEVC is not proprietary, the spec...

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I'm not worried. If Sisvel actually had something that they really believed was a valid patent used in VP9/AV1, we'd be in court or they would have had...

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Unless it goes royalty free it has no future as a web codec, however it currently holds the markets of >1080p streaming and the niche Ultra HD Bluray....

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It's impressive seeing how much this decoder has improved in such a short time. Hopefully the encoder side will see large improvements this year as w...

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Of course it's relevant, if there is no accuracy between the Linux and BSD's, there's no accuracy between Linux vs Windows or BSD vs Windows either....

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Ok, so judging by that, FreeBSD default flags are '-O2 -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing', with LAME's default optimization being -O3, thanks for...

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This is what made the article interesting for me.

And as for 'not a focus on compiler settings', the way this test was set up, compiler settings...

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Well, as someone who has been using open source OSes 24/7 for the past 15+ years, I'm interested in what performance benefits (if any) they have against...