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PGO Articles & Reviews

Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO   Storage   2023-08-22
GCC 11 PGO With The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X For Faster Performance   Software   2021-08-31
The Fastest Linux OS For AMD Ryzen Zen 3? It's Still Intel Clear Linux   Operating Systems   2020-12-22
An Early Look At The GCC 9.0 Performance On AMD EPYC   Software   2018-07-24
A Fresh Look At The PGO Performance With GCC 8   Software   2018-07-19

PGO Linux & Open-Source News

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango   GNOME   2024-03-22
Meta Continues Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance   LLVM   2024-02-16
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights   Phoronix   2023-12-01
Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros   Intel   2023-11-27
LLVM Now Using PGO For Building x86_64 Windows Release Binaries: ~22% Faster Builds   LLVM   2023-11-18
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2023-09-01
Go 1.21 Promotes PGO To General Use, Boosts Most Programs 2~7% With PGO   Programming   2023-08-08
Go 1.21 Enabling PGO For Faster Performance, Tuned Garbage Collector   Programming   2023-06-21
Linux Features Loved By Microsoft Engineers Working On WSL2   Microsoft   2023-05-14
Go 1.20 Released With Preview PGO Support, CPU Architecture Feature Build Flags   Programming   2023-02-01
Experimental Patches Adapt Linux For A Unikernel Design   Linux Kernel   2022-10-04
Linux Kernel Live Patching Working Fairly Well For Millions Of Meta Servers   Linux Kernel   2022-09-14
GCC 12 Profile Guided Optimization Benchmarks With The AMD Threadripper 3990X   GNU   2022-08-02
BOLT Merged Into LLVM To Optimize Binaries For Faster Performance   LLVM   2022-01-11
Gentoo Linux Packages Up AMD ROCm, Makes Progress On RISC-V, LTO+PGO Python   Operating Systems   2022-01-08
LLVM Enjoyed Record Growth In 2021, Many Exciting Compiler Advancements   LLVM   2022-01-02
Hypocrite Commits, Rust RFC & FUTEX2 Were Among Popular Kernel Topics In 2021   Linux Kernel   2022-01-01
BOLT Close To Merging Into LLVM For Optimizing Performance Of Binaries   LLVM   2021-12-09
Facebook's BOLT Nearing Mainline LLVM For Optimizing Binaries   LLVM   2021-11-04
Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month   Phoronix   2021-10-01
Facebook Has Been Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance   Linux Kernel   2021-09-25
Clang PGO Shot Down For Now From The Linux Kernel   LLVM   2021-07-01
Clang Profile Guided Optimizations Support Sent In For Linux 5.14   LLVM   2021-06-29
Linux 5.14 Set To See Many New Features, New GPU Support, Other Exciting Changes   Linux Kernel   2021-06-26
AMD SEV/SEV-ES Local Migration Support Patches For Linux   AMD   2021-06-21
Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) Likely Coming To Linux 5.14 For Clang   Linux Kernel   2021-06-12
Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued   LLVM   2021-02-08
GCC's Profile Guided Optimization Performance With The Ryzen 9 5950X   GNU   2021-01-17
Following LTO, Linux Kernel Patches Updated For PGO To Yield Faster Performance   LLVM   2021-01-14
2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux   Microsoft   2020-12-28
Bootlin's Pursuit To Let 32-bit ARM NAS Devices Support More Than 16TiB Of Storage   Hardware   2020-12-28
Mozilla Firefox Appears Ready To Enable AVIF Image Handling Support By Default   Mozilla   2020-12-20
Clang LTO Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2020-09-04
Chrome 86 Beta Enables Native File-System API By Default, WebCodecs Added   Google   2020-09-03
GCC Is Currently Faster Than LLVM's Clang At Compiling The Linux Kernel   GNU   2020-09-02
Intel mOS, Cachy, Mozilla Layoffs Were The Open-Source Buzz Of August   Phoronix   2020-09-01
Google Using AutoFDO On Linux Meant Up To 12% Less Cycles Spent Within The Kernel   Google   2020-08-28
Microsoft Is Exploring LTO+PGO For A Faster Linux Kernel   Microsoft   2020-08-27
Chrome 85 Is Clang PGO'ing Binaries For Better Performance But Linux Left Out   Google   2020-08-25
A Quick Look At GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks   Programming   2020-05-26
GCC 10.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks   GNU   2020-05-23
Mesa Developers Discuss LTO'ing + PGO'ing Builds For Greater Performance   Mesa   2020-02-13
OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More   Operating Systems   2020-02-01
Clear Linux Defined Linux Performance These Past Few Years   Clear Linux   2019-12-29
GCC 10 PGO Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X + Ubuntu 19.10   AMD   2019-12-24
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Statically Linking Python For Better Performance   Fedora   2019-11-08
OpenSUSE Enables LTO By Default For Tumbleweed - Smaller & Faster Binaries   SUSE   2019-07-17
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Aiming To PGO More Packages, Use IWD For WiFi Connections   Linux Networking   2019-07-15
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Compiler Tuning/Optimization Benchmarks With GCC 9, PGO   AMD   2019-05-16
Intel Cascade Lake Xeon Benchmarks With GCC 8 vs. GCC 9 Compilers   Intel   2019-05-03
OpenMandriva Appears To Be Experimenting With Profile Guided Optimizations   Operating Systems   2019-03-31
Google Is Hiring More LLVM/Clang Developers   Google   2019-01-16
Fedora's Firefox To Stick With GCC Over Clang, Beefed Up By LTO/PGO Optimizations   Fedora   2019-01-08
Fedora Looks To Build Firefox With Clang For Better Performance & Compilation Speed   Fedora   2018-12-11
Facebook's BOLT Is An Effort To Speed-Up Linux Binaries   Free Software   2018-11-25
Firefox Is Now Built With Clang+LTO Everywhere, Sizable Performance Wins For Linux   Mozilla   2018-09-12
Phoronix Test Suite 8.2 Milestone 1 Released For Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2018-07-21
Fedora Gets An Unofficial Kernel Based On Clear Linux   Clear Linux   2018-07-17
GCC 8.1 Compiler Released As The First Stable GCC8, Brings Many Improvements   GNU   2018-05-02
Clear Linux Shedding More Light On Their "Magic" Performance Work   Clear Linux   2018-04-04
Initial Retpoline Support Added To LLVM For Spectre v2 Mitigation   Linux Security   2018-01-22
Opera 43 Lands With "Instant Page Loading"   Proprietary Software   2017-02-07
Clear Linux's Latest Performance-Optimizing Effort: Greater PHP Performance   Clear Linux   2017-02-03
Microsoft .NET Core 1.1 Brings Support For More Linux Distributions, Greater Performance   Microsoft   2016-11-16
Nouveau Has Some Re-Clocking Improvements, But Still No GTX 900 Acceleration   Nouveau   2015-11-03
Ubuntu 15.10 + GCC 5.2: -O3, March=Native, FLTO Tests   GNU   2015-10-20
LLVM 3.7 & Clang 3.7 Are Bringing Exciting Compiler Features, Improvements   LLVM   2015-08-25
Google To Work On Better PGO Support For LLVM   LLVM   2015-02-26
LLVM Clang Works On Profile-Guided Optimizations   LLVM   2014-01-14
LLVM For Code Decompiling?   LLVM   2012-05-14
The Most Interesting GSoC 2012 Projects   Google   2012-04-24
Mozilla Spots Massive Performance Regression In GCC   GNU   2010-06-25