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This thread escalated quickly.

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I don't really know what to think of this separation as I wanted to see GPGPU taking off in the desktop space sooner and this could slow down this advancement...

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KDE developers should take notice...

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Come on guys, open source is about collaboration which implies benefiting from the work of others.

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My second post already reflected this, I fully understand that their motivation drives their project forward. On the other hand my remarks were aimed...

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I'd like to see what Nuvia brings to the table to distinguish itself from other ARM vendors. It seems most of them (at least Ampere, Marvell and Nuvia)...

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Don't get me wrong, they certainly have their own reasons for doing this work and I cannot judge if it is a distraction at all and I would be glad to...

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To be honest I'd rather see them further optimizing their stack for lower latency, a Vulkan backend for KWin etc.

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Agreed, but such testing could have been done or required before merging the ifunc functionality in the first place as this feature is not architecture-specific...

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By the way, as Clear Linux makes heavy use of that functionality, I'd bet that AMD CPUs will see additional significant performance gains in some benchmarks....

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I agree that AMD is very late on this topic, but better late than never. And their current users will see a free performance boost out of this. I wonder...

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Great news concerning the Glibc engagement from AMD for AVX2 ifunc on Zen CPUs: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/lib...ch/111930.html

That...

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The reasoning behind this decision is a question only AMD can answer and I agree with you that this is not optimal from our perspective. Maybe it is due...

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@[email protected] I don't know if it surprises you, but Intel is doing much of the software grunt work (Kernel, toolchain support etc.) in the X86 ecosystem which...

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Images are everywhere on the web, improving the efficiency is always welcome. Think of the billions of devices around the world which access thousands...

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Their PR statement could have explained to laymen like us what all of this means. I guess it's about saving memory bandwidth in the end while providing...

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Maybe it is time for Intel to decide what they want to achieve with ClearLinux and cater better to their target audience. That can go several ways, scaling...

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As more distros change their compression format to ZSTD, it is about time these patches get merged as the algorithm has proven itself and its usefulness...

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I also don't get it why this is seperate from their AOCC fork....

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Hm, why do they keep it out-of-tree? Their OpenMP work could be done upstream and in-tree? Or are there some benefits doing it this way?