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 |
| Memtest86+ 8.10 Improves Support For Newer Hardware | Free Software | 2026-05-16 |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-06 |
| Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward | Ubuntu | 2026-04-22 |
| Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations | Mesa | 2026-04-15 |
| LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance | LLVM | 2026-03-28 |
| CrossOver 26 Released - Powered By Wine 11.0 For Windows Apps/Games On Linux + macOS | Linux Gaming | 2026-02-10 |
| Google Looks To Upstream Its Propeller Tool To LLVM For More Performance | LLVM | 2025-12-25 |
| Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs | Free Software | 2025-11-24 |
| 15h.org Ships Updated Open-Source Firmware For Aging AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver Hardware | AMD | 2025-11-11 |
| Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust | Programming | 2025-11-04 |
| Features Expected For Linux 6.18: File-System Improvements, Sheaves, New Drivers & More Perf | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-26 |
| Linux 6.18 Landing Patch For Old AMD Bulldozer CPUs With XOP Instruction Set | AMD | 2025-09-26 |
| Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker | Programming | 2025-09-25 |
| Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted | Programming | 2025-09-18 |
| Intel Xe Graphics Driver Preps More SR-IOV Code For Linux 6.18 | Intel | 2025-09-04 |
| Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times | Programming | 2025-09-01 |
| LLVM 21.1 Released With AMD GFX1250 Target, Improved RISC-V, New C/C++ Features | LLVM | 2025-08-26 |
| LLVM Begins Landing Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" Support | LLVM | 2025-07-21 |
| LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10 | LLVM | 2025-07-17 |
| LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched | LLVM | 2025-07-15 |
| Zed Editor Introduces Built-In Debugger | Programming | 2025-06-18 |
| Mold 2.40.1 Delivers More Performance - Including A New Algorithm Generated By ChatGPT | Programming | 2025-06-09 |
| AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs | Operating Systems | 2025-05-27 |
| Qualcomm Open-Sources The ELD Linker Embedded Linker | Programming | 2025-04-14 |
| Gzip 1.14 Released With Faster Decompression On Intel & AMD CPUs | Free Software | 2025-04-10 |
| Mold 2.37 Linker Preps For Intel APX | Programming | 2025-03-06 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Support Being Worked On For The GPU Found In The Sony PS5 & BC-250 | Mesa | 2025-01-20 |
| LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines | LLVM | 2025-01-04 |
| LLVM 20 Merges An Initial Telemetry Framework | LLVM | 2024-12-22 |
| Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-05 |
| Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November | Phoronix | 2024-12-01 |
| Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer | Linux Kernel | 2024-11-28 |
| NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings | Linux Networking | 2024-10-03 |
| Valve's Proton 9.0-3 Brings Support For More Games On Linux, Many Fixes | Valve | 2024-09-19 |
| Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A. | Linux Kernel | 2024-09-17 |
| Mold 2.33 Adds New Flag To Further Speed Up The Linker | Programming | 2024-08-07 |
| LLVM Compiler Finally Ends Support For AMD's 3DNow! | LLVM | 2024-07-16 |
| Mold Linker Gains New Option To Deliver "Massively Faster" Performance | Programming | 2024-07-11 |
| Valve Rolls Out Proton 9.0-2 With Many Fixes For Running More Games On Steam Play | Valve | 2024-06-12 |
| Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Now Defaults To Btrfs Rather Than XFS | Operating Systems | 2024-06-09 |
| Mold 2.32 Released With Increased LLVM LLD Compatibility, Faster Identical Code Folding | Programming | 2024-06-09 |
| AMD's Newest Open-Source Surprise: "Peano" - An LLVM Compiler For Ryzen AI NPUs | AMD | 2024-06-08 |
| The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years | Phoronix | 2024-06-07 |
| The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years | Free Software | 2024-06-06 |
| Linux 6.10-rc2 Will Fix Booting Intel Quark CPUs & Problems With Old AMD CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-02 |
| LLVM Dealing With Slower Performance On AMD CPUs When Targeting AMD Zen Optimizations | AMD | 2024-05-09 |
| Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries | Programming | 2024-05-03 |
| 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 |
