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LLD Articles & Reviews

AMD Zen 1 Linux Performance Hit From Retbleed, Accumulated CPU Mitigation Impact   Software   2022-07-20
AMD EPYC 7F72 Performance On A Linux FSGSBASE-Patched Kernel   Software   2020-06-29
Testing Intel FSGSBASE Patches For Helping Elevate Linux Performance   Software   2020-06-25
Intel Core i3 8100: 3.6GHz Quad-Core With UHD Graphics For Less Than $120 USD   Processors   2017-10-06
Trying Out LLVM 4.0's LLD Linker On Ubuntu 17.04 vs. GNU LD, GNU Gold   Software   2017-03-16
The Impact Of GCC Zen Compiler Tuning On AMD Ryzen Performance   Software   2017-03-03
LLVM Clang 3.4 Compiler Performance Is Doing Good   Software   2013-12-21
AMD FX-8350 Linux Performance-Per-Watt   Processors   2012-10-26
AMD FX-8350 "Vishera" Linux Benchmarks   Processors   2012-10-23
AMD A10-5800K Performance On Ubuntu Linux   Processors   2012-10-12
GCC 4.7 AMD Bulldozer Compiler Tuning   Software   2012-09-24
AMD Bulldozer Performance On Ubuntu 12.10   Operating Systems   2012-09-20
Preview: EKOPath Benchmarks On AMD's Bulldozer   Software   2012-04-28
AMD's FX-8150 Bulldozer Benefits From New Compilers, Tuning   Software   2012-04-18
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM Virtualization Battles 8.04.4, 10.04.4 LTS   Operating Systems   2012-04-09
GCC 4.7 Compiler Performance On AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer   Software   2012-04-06
Ubuntu 12.04 KVM/Xen Virtualization: Intel vs. AMD   Processors   2012-03-28
AMD FX-8150 With The Open64 5.0 Compiler   Software   2011-11-25
AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer Overclocking On Ubuntu Linux   Processors   2011-11-22
AMD Cool 'n' Quiet, Turbo Core Impact On Linux   Processors   2011-11-16
AMD Bulldozer "bdver1" Compiler Performance   Software   2011-11-15
GCC 4.6, LLVM/Clang 3.0, Open64 Benchmarks   Software   2011-11-07
LLVMpipe Performance On AMD Bulldozer, Intel Sandy Bridge   Processors   2011-11-04
AMD Bulldozer Cache Aliasing Issue Fix   Software   2011-11-04
Open64 Compiler Tuning On AMD Bulldozer FX-8150   Software   2011-11-02
AMD Bulldozer With GCC, Open64, LLVM/Clang Compilers   Processors   2011-11-02
2011 Linux Graphics Survey Results   Display Drivers   2011-10-29
Multi-Core Scaling Performance Of AMD's Bulldozer   Processors   2011-10-26
AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer On Ubuntu Linux   Processors   2011-10-24
GCC 4.5 vs. 4.6 On AMD's FX-4100 Bulldozer   Software   2011-10-20
AMD FX-4100 Bulldozer   Processors   2011-10-19
Intel AES-NI For Full Disk Encryption   Software   2011-10-12
First Look: AMD Trinity APU, Linux Already Runs Well   Processors   2011-10-08
AMD Bulldozer Dual-Interlagos Benchmarks On Linux   Processors   2011-03-22
ASRock A780FullDisplayPort   Motherboards   2008-05-30

LLD Linux & Open-Source News

Intel's Newest Software Effort For Achieving Greater Performance: Thin Layout Optimizer   Intel   2024-04-11
Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler   Linux Kernel   2024-04-01
Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility   Programming   2024-03-16
Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld   Programming   2024-02-27
Linux 6.9 To Allow RISC-V Kernel Builds With Clang Link-Time Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2024-02-13
Building An AMD HIP Stack From Upstream Open-Source Code   Radeon   2024-02-09
The Mold Linker Is Great & Set To Become Even Better   Programming   2024-02-07
LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23   LLVM   2024-01-29
Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
Intel's Open-Source Contributions & Upstream Performance Optimizations Top 2023   Intel   2024-01-01
Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions   Programming   2023-10-18
LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features   LLVM   2023-09-19
Mold 2.1 Linker Brings LoongArch CPU Support   Programming   2023-08-13
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License   Programming   2023-07-26
Unified LTO Bitcode Front-End Comes Together For LLVM   LLVM   2023-07-26
The Open64 Compiler Seeing Some Recent Changes, clang2whirl Clang Open64 Front-End   Programming   2023-07-21
Solus Linux 4.4 Released - Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie Desktop   Operating Systems   2023-07-07
New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds   LLVM   2023-06-25
Firewalld 2.0 Released With Faster Forwarding Performance Via NFTables Flowtable   Free Software   2023-06-23
Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance   Red Hat   2023-06-19
Red Hat's HDR Hackfest Sounds Like It Was A Success   Desktop   2023-05-01
LLVM 16.0.1 Released With Many Compiler Fixes, Backports AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model   LLVM   2023-04-05
New AMD Ryzen CPUs, Intel Sapphire Rapids, Rust Adoption & More In Q1   Phoronix   2023-03-31
LLVM 16.0 Released With New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features   LLVM   2023-03-18
Mold 1.11 High Performance Linker Released With Initial POWER10 Support   Programming   2023-03-16
Ubuntu 23.04 Preparing To Land Its Linux 6.2 Based Kernel   Ubuntu   2023-03-13
Linux Inadvertently Has Been Leaving IBRS-Mitigated Systems Without STIBP   Linux Security   2023-02-27
Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted, Open-Source NVIDIA RTX 30   Linux Kernel   2023-02-19
The Best Linux 6.2 Features From Intel Arc Graphics To Better Performance For Older PCs   Linux Kernel   2023-02-17
Proposed Linux Patch Would Allow Disabling CPU Security Mitigations At Build-Time   Linux Security   2023-02-03
Red Hat's Display/HDR Hackfest Scheduled For April   Red Hat   2023-02-03
Linux 6.3 Features, Intel Sapphire Rapids & More Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2023-01-31
Mold 1.10 Released With Few New Features For This High Speed Linker   Programming   2023-01-20
Mold 1.9 Released With Support For More CPU Architectures   Programming   2023-01-06
Firewalld 1.3 Released With Easier Firewall Management For More Services   Free Software   2023-01-05
Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop   Desktop   2023-01-04
AMD Continued Its Great Linux Embrace In 2022 With Better Launch-Day Support + Optimizations   AMD   2022-12-31
Mold 1.8 Released With More Features For This High Performance Linker   Programming   2022-12-26
openSUSE ALP "Punta Baretti" Prototype Released With More Changes   SUSE   2022-12-20
Blender Eyes Raising Its CPU Requirements   Free Software   2022-12-09
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Transitioning To x86-64-v2 CPU Requirements   SUSE   2022-11-28
Mold 1.7 Released But May Need To Change Software License If Funding Not Secured   Programming   2022-11-13
Old AMD CPU & Motherboard Support Removed From Open-Source Coreboot   AMD   2022-11-07
AMD Per-Thread CPU Microcode Loading Fix Submitted For Linux 6.1-rc2   AMD   2022-10-23
FreeBSD 12.4-BETA1 Released, Q3-2022 Status Report Issued   BSD   2022-10-22
Mold 1.6 High Speed Linker Adds PPC64 and s390x, Smaller Output Files   Programming   2022-10-19
High-Speed Mold 1.5 Linker Released With PPC64LE, SPARC64 & RISC-V BE Targets   Programming   2022-09-27
Mesa CI Begins Making Use Of Mold Linker For "Substantial" Performance Improvement   Mesa   2022-08-24
Webmin 2.0 Released For Open-Source Web-Based Server Management/Administration   Free Software   2022-08-23
High Performance Mold Linker Begins Adding macOS, CMake Build Support   Programming   2022-08-18
AMD CPU Microcode Loading On Linux Being Fixed Up To Be Per-Thread   AMD   2022-08-16
FreeBSD In Q2-2022: More Than 30k Ports, Driver Improvements, Better Linux Compatibility   BSD   2022-08-09
RISC-V With Linux 6.0 Improves Svpbmt, More Useful Default Kernel Configuration   RISC-V   2022-08-07
Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights   Phoronix   2022-08-01
Stalld 1.17 Brings LoongArch Support, Bug Fixes For Thread Stall Detection & Boosting   Free Software   2022-07-18
Firewalld 1.2 Released With New Services Added   Free Software   2022-07-02
Mold 1.3 High Speed Linker Released With LTO Improvements   Programming   2022-06-18
AMD Updates Linux Patches For Lowering Idle Exit Latency   AMD   2022-05-10
GNU C Library Dropping Various SSSE3 Optimized Code Paths   GNU   2022-04-16
Mold 1.2 High-Speed Linker Brings 32-bit Arm Support, Bug Fixes   Programming   2022-04-15
Arch-Based EndeavourOS "Apollo" Released   Arch Linux   2022-04-11
FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.1, WiFi Updates   BSD   2022-04-01
Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1   Phoronix   2022-03-31
FreeBSD Shortening Its Boot Time, ASLR By Default & Better Intel WiFi Support   BSD   2022-03-11
FreeBSD 13.1-BETA Headlined By Changes To POWER & RISC-V Architectures   BSD   2022-03-11
Mold 1.1.1 Released With Optimized Memory Usage, New Options   Programming   2022-03-08
Firewalld 1.1 Released With New Services Added   Free Software   2022-02-25
Mold 1.1 High Performance Linker Brings Native LTO, RISC-V Support   Programming   2022-02-21
Intel Alder Lake & Linux Kernel Advancements Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2022-02-01
Mold 1.0.2 Released For This High Performance Linker   Programming   2022-01-23
AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security   AMD   2022-01-04
LLVM Enjoyed Record Growth In 2021, Many Exciting Compiler Advancements   LLVM   2022-01-02
Mold 1.0.1 Released As Newest Version Of This High-Speed Linker   Programming   2021-12-31
GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker   GNU   2021-12-29
Mold 1.0 Released As A Modern High-Speed Linker Alternative To GNU Gold, LLVM LLD   Programming   2021-12-21
Linux Kernel Set To Finally Retire AMD 3DNow!   AMD   2021-12-13
FreeBSD Improving Boot Times, Adds Hole-Punching, Better Linux Binary Compatibility   BSD   2021-11-15
Red Hat Is Making It Easy To Run Bleeding-Edge LLVM/Clang On Fedora   Fedora   2021-10-10
Microsoft Releases September Update To CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution   Microsoft   2021-10-05
LLVM 13.0 Released With Official Flang Binary Packages, Improved OpenCL Clang Support   LLVM   2021-10-01
Arm Posts New GCC Compiler Patches Due To New Vulnerability Affecting ARMv8-M TrustZone   Arm   2021-08-24
LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July   Phoronix   2021-08-01
Firewalld 1.0 Released With Big Improvements   Linux Networking   2021-07-22
Fedora 35 Approved For Third-Party Repo Changes, More Optimal Encryption Default   Fedora   2021-07-19
Linux 5.14 Staging Drops A Set Of Drivers For The Second Time, Intel QEP Added   Linux Kernel   2021-07-06
Firewalld Prepares For Its Major 1.0 Release For Linux Firewall Management   Linux Networking   2021-06-29
Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.7683 Ships With Many Changes   Intel   2021-06-21
FreeBSD Is Off To A Good 2021 Start With FreeBSD 13.0, PIE By Default, helloSystem   BSD   2021-05-07
Red Hat Is Hiring More LLVM Compiler Engineers   Red Hat   2021-05-06
OpenBSD 6.9 Released In Beginning To Support Apple's M1 SoC   BSD   2021-04-30
LLVM 12.0-RC1 Available For Testing This Latest Open-Source Compiler   LLVM   2021-01-28
FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of GPL-Licensed Software   BSD   2021-01-16
LLVM 11.0.1 Tagged As The Latest Stable Bits For This Open-Source Compiler   LLVM   2021-01-06
LLVM Adds Initial Support For PowerPC LE   LLVM   2021-01-03
Red Hat's "Stalld" Thread Stall Detector + Booster Sees New Updates   Red Hat   2020-11-06
RHEL 8.3 Released With TSX Disabled By Default To Avoid Mitigation Overhead   Red Hat   2020-10-29
FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues   BSD   2020-10-22
Facebook Is Looking To Upstream Their BOLT Binary Performance Optimizer Into LLVM   LLVM   2020-10-21
LLVM 11.0-RC3 Released For This Big LLVM/Clang Update   LLVM   2020-09-22
Red Hat Has Been Working On "stalld" As A Thread Stall Detector + Booster   Red Hat   2020-08-31
Ubuntu To Try Again In Switching IPTables To Use Nftables Backend   Ubuntu   2020-08-27
LLVM 11.0-RC1 Now Available For Testing   LLVM   2020-07-28
Linus Torvalds' Initial Comment On Rust Code Prospects Within The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2020-07-11
5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features   LLVM   2020-06-28
NetworkManager 1.26 Development Progressing With New Functionality   Linux Networking   2020-05-31
The New AMD Energy Driver Is Working Out Well On Linux For Per-Socket/Core Reporting   AMD   2020-05-27
Google Posts Patches Allowing AMD Zen/Zen2 CPUs To Expose Power Usage On Linux Via RAPL   AMD   2020-05-16
Oracle Linux 8 Update 2 Released, Now Defaulting To UEK R6 Kernel For New Installs   Oracle   2020-05-07
Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36   Fedora   2020-04-28
Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week   Fedora   2020-04-23
Fedora 32 Delayed From Releasing Next Week Due To Bugs   Fedora   2020-04-17
FreeBSD Is Off To A Solid Start For 2020   BSD   2020-04-13
Google's Propeller Is Beginning To Be Upstreamed For Spinning Faster Program Binaries   LLVM   2020-04-07
LLVM/Clang 10.0 Now Available With Better C++20 Support, New CPU Coverage   LLVM   2020-03-24
Facebook Planning To Ramp Up Investment In LLVM, Hire More Compiler Engineers   LLVM   2020-03-21
Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop   Fedora   2020-03-17
The New Compiler Features Of LLVM 10.0 / Clang 10.0   LLVM   2020-03-08
Wine Debugger Improvements Are On The Way, Start Of LLVM LLDB Support   WINE   2020-01-27
The Hurd Microkernel Still Isn't Ready But GNU Had A Great 2010s With GCC + Other Projects   GNU   2019-12-25
LLVM Began Its Dominance Of The Compiler Landscape This Decade   LLVM   2019-12-25
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-12
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-11
Linux 5.5 Begins Sanity Checking RdRand Output Due To Buggy Processor Behavior   Linux Kernel   2019-11-25
Wine 4.20 Brings Vulkan Updates, Better LLVM MinGW Support   WINE   2019-11-15
FreeBSD 12.1 Released With LLD Linker On i386 By Default, Now Shipping Libomp   BSD   2019-11-04
FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 Has Update For UEFI 2.7A, Various Bug Fixes   BSD   2019-10-19
Debian 11 To Further Deprecate IPTables In Favor Of Nftables Plus Promoting Firewalld   Debian   2019-10-14
FreeBSD 12.1 Is Near With Libomp Finally In Base, LLD Linker By Default For i386   BSD   2019-10-12
Godot 3.2 Enters Alpha With Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2019-10-06
Following Buggy AMD RdRand, The Linux Kernel Will Begin Sanity Checking Randomness At Boot Time   Linux Security   2019-10-02
Fedora 32 Looking At Switching Firewalld From Iptables To Nftables   Fedora   2019-09-11
Linux 5.3 Moves Ahead With No Longer Advertising RdRand On Older AMD CPUs/APUs   AMD   2019-08-26
AMD Bulldozer/Jaguar CPUs Will No Longer Advertise RdRand Support Under Linux   AMD   2019-08-15
AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler 2.0 Released With Zen 2 Support   AMD   2019-08-08
Linux k10temp Support Pending For AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Processors   AMD   2019-07-28
Fedora 31 Looking At Making It Easy To Use LLVM's LLD Linker   Fedora   2019-07-23
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Aiming To PGO More Packages, Use IWD For WiFi Connections   Linux Networking   2019-07-15
FreeBSD Had A Very Busy Q1-2019 As It Approaches Its 26th Birthday   BSD   2019-06-04
ZombieLoad Mitigation Costs For Intel Haswell Xeon, Plus Overall Mitigation Impact   Linux Security   2019-05-23
OpenBSD 6.5 Released With RETGUARD, OpenRSYNC   BSD   2019-04-24
NetworkManager 1.18 Released With Policy Routing Rules, VLAN Filtering For Linux Bridge   Linux Networking   2019-04-22
NetworkManager 1.17.2 Kicks Off The March Towards NetworkManager 1.18   Linux Networking   2019-04-03
LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL   LLVM   2019-03-20
The Notable Changes So Far With The Linux 5.1 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2019-03-12
Linux 5.1 Will Play Nicer With The LLVM Linker (LD.LLD)   Linux Kernel   2019-03-09
The New Features & Changes With The LLVM Clang 8.0 Compiler Stack   LLVM   2019-02-26
A Detailed Look At The Speed Advantages To LLVM's LLD Linker   LLVM   2019-02-06
Some Radeon ROCm Packages Pending Review For Fedora   Fedora   2019-01-21
NetBSD Exploring LLVM's LLD Linker For Lower Memory Footprint   LLVM   2019-01-19
The New LLVM Repository Is Now Officially Available Via Git On GitHub   LLVM   2019-01-11