Friday 25 March 2022

For the 14th time ...

 Hi folks,

Since the last time, finally I let go some of old gears (especially the ones with old mechanic hard drives) for mostly Lenovo laptop as always open source os friendly. While I lost keyboard firmness, I gained performance overall with finally a decent GPU unit.

- LLVM 14 had finally been released hopefully will be less unluckily plagued than the 13th but the list of changes is enormous as always. Note for example Facebook's BOLT had been finally merged mainstream.

- The PHP 8.0 and 8.1 lines respectively continue to provide new fix releases, goal for the next ones is to strengthen the opcache/JIT solidity among other things.

- Something to keep an eye on, the rewrite of (c)python ; as implied it s to gain performance. Indeed most of programming languages had progressed in that area but the python global lock had been a major obstacle for a long time. Speaking of possible improvements, mimalloc is tested as a possible allocator replacement/alternative.

I have personally bouncing between video games (mainly yquake2, openspades and in a lesser extent supertuxkart), a couple of rust crates (mainly the libc's), PHP ... trying to get involved in the rewrite on some memory allocators I used to contribute to, mostly the microsoft's ones.

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