Se7en Patches

 Hi folks,

Just few quick notes while getting slowly but surely of the winter ; I contribute more to yquake2remaster than yquake2 where the former is more the place for experimentations but nevertheless always a pleasure to contribute to this game engine now nearly 30 years old !

Realising the sched-ext repository had migrated its high performance C EBPF schedulers into the linux kernel, I ported my previous PR in LKML alongside with new ones. They are now being merged upstream just in time for the 7.0 release. Yes I do like round numbers 😌 ..

See you next time.

2025, PHP 8.5 ... and other 5 things ...

 Hi folks,

About 5 months without any update, does not mean however nothing happened 😌

Finally, FreeBSD 15.0 is around the corner, it is expected sooner than later ! As always there is a release notes, what I retain personally is C libraries are using more and more SIMD for noticeable performance improvements.

A bit earlier, PHP 8.5 had been released. While the Pipe operator definitely takes the cake amongst new features, I for sure invite you to look the NEWS and the migration guide. Notably, now opcache is being a builtin, you no longer need to set this line zend_extension=...

Meanwhile, as usual,did some contributions here and there, sched-ext/scx (I am glad the meson build had been made obsolete), rust libc ... This language still remains one of my top 3 !

Wish you great Xmas holidays in advance, take care !

It could had been my son !

 Hi folks !

As always, time flies faster than expected. Indeed, PHP is just celebrating its 30 years of existence !

While I was very much alive at that time, I only got to know this language only sometime between the death of PHP 3/early days of  PHP 4 ; but already felt the appeal compared to Perl 5 for example. Anyhow, congratulations to all people involved, it is a pleasure to be a participant personally.

Regarding PHP, I m still hoping to push my sockets packet filter feature before the feature freeze in few months now, at least the major bits. Considering rust, few old proposals had been considered, one had been accepted, another also but not merged yet and couple of these had been refused (with good reasons).

Still playing around with sched-ext/scx and the nvidia rust wrapper when I get the chance. Happy anniversary PHP again and you, take care see you around next time !

My pleasure !

 Hi folks,

Hopefully it is the same for you, here days are getting sunnier and sunnier !!

I wanted to mention this last PHP Foundation blog post, summarising 2024 pretty much.

I am glad the team of developers did impact so positively PHP quality, perception, innovation ...

in the eyes of the users. Looking forward for further positive events.

Apart of this, I recently dived in to sched-ext, the scx project which leverage Linux new capabilities of offering custom scheduler in the user space (so no longer need of risky kernel modules, all goes through BPF). It is interesting and a lot of very skilled individuals are involved, I try step by step to increase

the GPU side "intelligence" partly done in C, partly Rust, reflecting the push of more Rust components in the Linux kernel. We will see how it goes.

To note, the next major BSD event will be the traditional BSDCan from the 11th to the 14th of June, the schedule shoulw follow soon enough.

In the meantime, take care and see you soon ✋

The early worm catches the bird !

 Hi folks,

We LLVM members have the pleasure to announce the 20.1 release ! Definitively earlier than expected,

but no serious bug had been reported. As always, there is a bit of everything for everybody in it, I mostly

look forward TySan and the new ISA extensions for the Diamond Intel Processors.

For who follow me for long enough, you may have a hint I am a bit of Saint Seiya fan among other japanese ips, Dokho being my all time favourite Gold Saint (Saga/Kanon being a very close second), I did my best to reproduce his most powerful attack pose. The purists will probably say "Not quite !", they are probably right. 

Anyway 😊, more importantly, I started working on future PHP 8.5 especially on the sockets extension, trying to make Linux packet filtering (a lot more) accessible. I may try to port a chunk of this to other platforms (BSD, illumos maybe), we will see.

That's pretty much this, if you ever feel defeated try to get up once more 😊 that's all I gonna say, take care see you next time !

Happy bird day to you !

 Hi folks,

Now I have 1 year of perspective as PHP Foundation member, I can tell it is exciting to be part of it and have a lot of hope for the unfolding current year. Stay tuned to the Foundation blog as always, you will know everything in due time.

Apart of this, I increased these last weeks my average LLVM commits, at least just in time for the 20 branching which occurred as planned the 28th. Especially for the recent RealtimeSanitizer, I am also personally excited for the development of TySan (not to confuse with TSan) ; sounds pretty promising. Still contribute to various rust related projects, pretty happy the FreeBSD ABI level had been increased recently it will unblock quite some few features which depended on it.

In the meantime, I wish you well, cheers ✌

Finally

 Hi folks,

Since about 2 weeks as I write, the EuroBSDCon 2024 are available for everyone to see on YT, including the closing session and the sponsors shoutout. Enjoy !! ☺️

PHP 8.4.2 (reminder just in case 8.4.0 is not be used) had been available for a little while and I think it can start to be really considered for production usage at this stage. Numerous bug fixes had been pushed to lower branches as well, hopefully you can upgrade !

Time to prepare for Xmas eve, see you next time 👍🏼