ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks

([Linux Kernel] 13 April 09:30 AM EDT Improve Performance)

In addition to a SLUB optimization for extreme scenarios, faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption for modern Intel/AMD CPUs, and other performance optimizations on the way for Linux 6.10, another minor one was queued up this week.

Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO

([Mesa] 13 April 06:46 AM EDT ZINK_DEBUG=ioopt)

Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has merged a big optimization / bug fixing effort he's recently been tackling for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.

Fedora 41 Looks To "-O3" Optimizations For Its Python Build

([Fedora] 13 April 06:27 AM EDT -O3 Python)

A change proposal has been filed for building the CPython interpreter and the Python standard library using the "-O3" compiler optimization flag rather than Fedora's imposed default of the "-O2" optimization level. This is being sought in the name of greater Python performance on Fedora 41.

KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes

([KDE] 13 April 06:13 AM EDT KDE This Week)

KDE developers had a very busy week with a lot of new feature work continuing to land for Plasma 6.1 plus continuing to address bugs and other fallout from the recent Plasma 6 introduction.

Q: How many Microsoft Programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: It cannot be done. You will need to upgrade your house.

Q: How many Linux users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to write the HOWTO-LIGHTBULB-CRONJOB, and another to read
it.

-- Geoff Johnson