LTO Articles & Reviews |
| Some Meaningful Performance Benefits For Clang + LTO Built Linux Kernels | Software | 2025-12-30 |
| Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO | Storage | 2023-08-22 |
| Intel Announces Rialto Bridge As Ponte Vecchio Successor, Talks Up Falcon Shores & DAOS | Events | 2022-05-31 |
| LLVM Clang 12 Benchmarks At Varying Optimization Levels, LTO | Software | 2021-06-25 |
| Linux 5.12 Features Intel Xe VRR, Nintendo 64 Port + Clang LTO + Much More | Software | 2021-02-28 |
| 7-Way Linux Distribution Benchmarks For July 2019, Including LTO'ed openSUSE Tumbleweed | Operating Systems | 2019-07-22 |
| GCC 4.7 Link-Time Optimization Performance | Software | 2012-08-21 |
| Logitech Alto Express | Peripherals | 2008-03-20 |
LTO Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO | Linux Kernel | 2026-06-14 |
| Proposed Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" For LLVM Is Great News | LLVM | 2026-05-22 |
| GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68 | GNU | 2026-04-22 |
| LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance | LLVM | 2026-03-28 |
| Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds | RISC-V | 2026-03-10 |
| GCC 16 Compiler Aiming For Mid-April Release Candidate But "Slow" Progress On Fixes | GNU | 2026-03-09 |
| LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements | LLVM | 2026-02-24 |
| Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-16 |
| Linux 7.0 VFS Changes: Non-Blocking Timestamps, Standardized Generic I/O Error Reporting | Linux Storage | 2026-02-10 |
| LLVM 22.1-rc3 Released - LLVM To Provide Windows ARM Release Binaries Moving Forward | LLVM | 2026-02-10 |
| Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment | Programming | 2026-02-09 |
| A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-08 |
| Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs" | Mesa | 2026-02-04 |
| New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW | Intel | 2026-01-27 |
| LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support | LLVM | 2026-01-13 |
| GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default | GNU | 2026-01-12 |
| Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-10 |
| Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 Brings More Performance Optimizations & Xe3 Fixes | Intel | 2025-12-17 |
| Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std" | Programming | 2025-12-08 |
| Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust | Programming | 2025-11-04 |
| GCC 16 Increasing Its Default LTO Partition Count Due To Today's High Core Count CPUs | GNU | 2025-09-04 |
| LLVM Begins Landing Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" Support | LLVM | 2025-07-21 |
| Google Engineers Exploring Distributed ThinLTO Builds Of The Linux Kernel | Google | 2025-04-19 |
| GNU Binutils 2.44 Released With Gas Support For AVX10.2, New Diamond Rapids Instructions | GNU | 2025-02-02 |
| NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads | NVIDIA | 2025-01-06 |
| SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning | Multimedia | 2024-10-31 |
| Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores For Rendering HTML Tables | Free Software | 2024-07-31 |
| Cloudflare Praises Golang PGO For Significant CPU Savings | Programming | 2024-05-19 |
| Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support | Arch Linux | 2024-03-04 |
| CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February | Operating Systems | 2024-02-24 |
| Linux 6.9 To Allow RISC-V Kernel Builds With Clang Link-Time Optimizations | Linux Kernel | 2024-02-13 |
| Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512 | Arch Linux | 2023-12-14 |
| LLVM Now Using PGO For Building x86_64 Windows Release Binaries: ~22% Faster Builds | LLVM | 2023-11-18 |
| GCC Patches Posted For Implementing Incremental LTO | GNU | 2023-11-18 |
| Intel Speeds Up ISPC Via LLVM/Clang LTO | Intel | 2023-11-15 |
| LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features | LLVM | 2023-09-19 |
| Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights | Phoronix | 2023-09-01 |
| Unified LTO Bitcode Front-End Comes Together For LLVM | LLVM | 2023-07-26 |
| LLVM Lands Initial Support For Fat LTO Objects | LLVM | 2023-07-02 |
| Intel Shifts Its HPC Max Series Focus To Falcon Shores In 2025 | Intel | 2023-03-03 |
| Fedora 38 Cleared To Ship With Its Bleeding Edge Compiler Toolchain | Fedora | 2023-01-30 |
| GCC 13 Progresses To Stage 4 "Regression Fixes Only" Development | GNU | 2023-01-16 |
| LLVM Introducing JIT Support For OpenMP Offloading | LLVM | 2022-12-28 |
| NVIDIA CUDA 12.0 Released With Official JIT LTO, C++20 Dialect Support | NVIDIA | 2022-12-09 |
| Patches Posted For GCC LTO Optimizing The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-14 |
| Meson 0.64 Build System Released With Intel oneAPI Compiler Support, Incremental ThinLTO | Programming | 2022-11-07 |
| Improved Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) Implementation Submitted For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-02 |
| OpenMandriva Speeding Up Their AArch64 Linux Development With Ampere Altra | Operating Systems | 2022-09-20 |
| GCC 12 Profile Guided Optimization Benchmarks With The AMD Threadripper 3990X | GNU | 2022-08-02 |
| Mold 1.3 High Speed Linker Released With LTO Improvements | Programming | 2022-06-18 |
| Mold 1.1.1 Released With Optimized Memory Usage, New Options | Programming | 2022-03-08 |
| Mold 1.1 High Performance Linker Brings Native LTO, RISC-V Support | Programming | 2022-02-21 |
| Chimera Linux Pushes Ahead For FreeBSD User-Space Atop Linux, Built Using LLVM | Operating Systems | 2022-02-08 |
| Mold 1.0.2 Released For This High Performance Linker | Programming | 2022-01-23 |
| BOLT Merged Into LLVM To Optimize Binaries For Faster Performance | LLVM | 2022-01-11 |
| Gentoo Linux Packages Up AMD ROCm, Makes Progress On RISC-V, LTO+PGO Python | Operating Systems | 2022-01-08 |
| LLVM Enjoyed Record Growth In 2021, Many Exciting Compiler Advancements | LLVM | 2022-01-02 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rust RFC & FUTEX2 Were Among Popular Kernel Topics In 2021 | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-01 |
| 2021 Brought A Convenient Installer For Arch Linux, Powering The Steam Deck | Arch Linux | 2021-12-31 |
| Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success | Ubuntu | 2021-12-30 |
| Facebook's BOLT Nearing Mainline LLVM For Optimizing Binaries | LLVM | 2021-11-04 |
| Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month | Phoronix | 2021-10-01 |
| Facebook Has Been Working On BOLT'ing The Linux Kernel For Greater Performance | Linux Kernel | 2021-09-25 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated To Beef Up Security | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-25 |
| The Most Popular Intel Linux/Open-Source News From H1'2021 | Intel | 2021-07-08 |
| AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm | AMD | 2021-07-04 |
| Intel Crocus, Linux 5.13, Other Vendor Happenings Made For An Exciting June | Phoronix | 2021-06-30 |
| Clang Profile Guided Optimizations Support Sent In For Linux 5.14 | LLVM | 2021-06-29 |
| Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) Likely Coming To Linux 5.14 For Clang | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-12 |
| Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now | LLVM | 2021-04-30 |
| The 12 Most Interesting Changes Of Linux 5.12 - PS5, N64, Intel VRR, RDNA2 OverDrive | Linux Kernel | 2021-04-15 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week Continues For Taming The Hirsute Hippo | Ubuntu | 2021-04-04 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Beta Released For This Linux 5.11 Powered Update With Wayland By Default | Ubuntu | 2021-04-01 |
| Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March | Phoronix | 2021-04-01 |
| The Most Popular AMD Linux/Open-Source News For Q1'2021 | AMD | 2021-03-31 |
| QEMU 6.0 On The Way With LTO Support, AMD SEV-ES Guests, Multi-Process Experiment | Virtualization | 2021-03-25 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 Moves Ahead With Enabling LTO Optimizations For Greater Performance | Ubuntu | 2021-03-20 |
| Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Aim To Provide Better Security | LLVM | 2021-03-14 |
| Arch Linux Looking To Employ LTO By Default, Possibly Raise x86-64 Requirements | Arch Linux | 2021-03-09 |
| Clang LTO Support Merged For Linux 5.12 Including ARM64 + x86_64 | LLVM | 2021-02-23 |
| Clang LTO PR Submitted For Linux 5.12, But x86_64 Support Not Included Yet | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-17 |
| GNU C Library 2.33 Should Be Out Soon - And It's Very Exciting Due To "HWCAPS" | GNU | 2021-01-29 |
| Ubuntu 21.04 To Turn On LTO Optimizations For Its Packages | Ubuntu | 2021-01-29 |
| GNU Binutils 2.36 Released With Support For Intel AMX, AVX VNNI, Key Locker | GNU | 2021-01-24 |
| Following LTO, Linux Kernel Patches Updated For PGO To Yield Faster Performance | LLVM | 2021-01-14 |
| Clang LTO Support Looks Like It Could Land For Linux 5.12 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-11 |
| Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years | Free Software | 2021-01-01 |
| Clang LTO Support For The Linux Kernel Spun Up A Seventh Time | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-21 |
| Fedora 33 To Be Released Next Week | Fedora | 2020-10-23 |
| Fedora 33 Beta Released With Big Changes From LTO To Btrfs | Fedora | 2020-09-29 |
| Fedora 33 Beta To Be Released Next Week | Fedora | 2020-09-25 |
| Clang LTO Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| GCC Automatic Parallel Compilation Viability Results Help Up To 3.3x | GNU | 2020-09-03 |
| GCC Is Currently Faster Than LLVM's Clang At Compiling The Linux Kernel | GNU | 2020-09-02 |
| Google Using AutoFDO On Linux Meant Up To 12% Less Cycles Spent Within The Kernel | Google | 2020-08-28 |
| Microsoft Is Exploring LTO+PGO For A Faster Linux Kernel | Microsoft | 2020-08-27 |
| GCC "-fparallel-jobs" Sent Out For Compiling Individual Files In Parallel - Up To ~1.9x Speedup | GNU | 2020-08-21 |
| Fedora 33 LTO Support Is Now In Good Shape For Faster, Smaller Packages | Fedora | 2020-08-19 |
| Fedora 33 Moving Closer To LTO-Optimizing Packages | Fedora | 2020-08-09 |
| Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang | Linux Kernel | 2020-06-24 |
| Mesa Developers Discuss LTO'ing + PGO'ing Builds For Greater Performance | Mesa | 2020-02-13 |
| OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More | Operating Systems | 2020-02-01 |
| GCC 10 PGO Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X + Ubuntu 19.10 | AMD | 2019-12-24 |
| Fedora 32 Aiming To Enable Link-Time Optimizations By Default For Packages | Fedora | 2019-12-20 |
| GNOME 3.35.2 Released As Another Step Towards The GNOME 3.36 Desktop | GNOME | 2019-11-24 |
| LLVM Clang RISC-V Now Supports LTO | LLVM | 2019-10-16 |
| GCC 10's LTO Will Make Use Of Available CPU Cores By Default | GNU | 2019-08-04 |
| AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July | Phoronix | 2019-08-01 |
| Purism Finally Announces The Firmed Up Specifications For The Librem 5 Smartphone | Hardware | 2019-07-29 |
| GCC 10 Likely To See "-flto=auto" Option | SUSE | 2019-07-24 |
| Fedora 31 Looking At Making It Easy To Use LLVM's LLD Linker | Fedora | 2019-07-23 |
| OpenSUSE Enables LTO By Default For Tumbleweed - Smaller & Faster Binaries | SUSE | 2019-07-17 |
| GCC 10 Lands The Zstd LTO Bytecode Compression Support | GNU | 2019-07-06 |
| GCC Is Looking At Zstd For Compressing Its LTO Data | GNU | 2019-06-21 |
| OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Eyeing LTO By Default; GCC 9 Optimization Work Thanks To Firefox | GNU | 2019-05-04 |
| Intel Cascade Lake Xeon Benchmarks With GCC 8 vs. GCC 9 Compilers | Intel | 2019-05-03 |
| At Least 27% Of Gentoo's Portage Can Be Easily LTO Optimized For Better Performance | Operating Systems | 2019-04-17 |
| OpenMandriva Appears To Be Experimenting With Profile Guided Optimizations | Operating Systems | 2019-03-31 |
| Librem 5 Smartphone Specs Firmed Up, But Now Delayed To Q3 | Hardware | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora's Firefox To Stick With GCC Over Clang, Beefed Up By LTO/PGO Optimizations | Fedora | 2019-01-08 |
| Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Is Becoming Popular Again | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-21 |
| Radeon ROCm 1.9.2 Released - Brings SDMA/RDMA Support For Vega 20, HIP/HCC Improvements | Radeon | 2018-11-16 |
| Firefox Is Now Built With Clang+LTO Everywhere, Sizable Performance Wins For Linux | Mozilla | 2018-09-12 |
| Fedora Gets An Unofficial Kernel Based On Clear Linux | Clear Linux | 2018-07-17 |
| Initial Retpoline Support Added To LLVM For Spectre v2 Mitigation | Linux Security | 2018-01-22 |
| Linux Kernel Patches Add Clang LTO Support | Linux Kernel | 2017-11-04 |
| Squeezing More Juice Out Of Gentoo With Graphite, LTO Optimizations | Operating Systems | 2017-09-11 |
| LLVM 3.9 Officially Released | LLVM | 2016-09-02 |
| Microsoft Open-Sources PowerShell & Brings It To Linux | Microsoft | 2016-08-18 |
| LLVM/Clang 3.9 Is Shipping Soon With OpenCL 2.0, ThinLTO & Much More | LLVM | 2016-08-16 |
| LTO'ing Mesa Is Getting Discussed For Performance & Binary Size Reasons | Mesa | 2016-05-31 |
| Other Linux Distributions Begin Analyzing Clear Linux's Performance Optimizations | Clear Linux | 2016-04-24 |
| OpenMandriva Lx3 Beta 1 Finally Released, Built With Clang+LTO By Default | Operating Systems | 2016-04-07 |
| LLVM's New LLD ELF Linker Continues To Mature For Linux Systems | LLVM | 2016-04-04 |
| Ubuntu 15.10 + GCC 5.2: -O3, March=Native, FLTO Tests | GNU | 2015-10-20 |
| Biggest Linux Kernel Features & Work Of 2014 | Linux Kernel | 2014-12-27 |
| Trying Link-Time Optimizations On GCC 4.10 | GNU | 2014-06-23 |
| Intel Is Working On A Linux Networking Stack For Small Systems | Intel | 2014-05-06 |
| AMD's AM1 Platform & Linux 3.15 Dominated April | Phoronix | 2014-04-30 |
| Link-Time Optimizing Improved, But Still Takes A While On GCC 4.9 | GNU | 2014-04-13 |
| The Linux 3.15 Kernel Is Going To Have A Lot Of Great Features | Linux Kernel | 2014-04-12 |
| Bringing Major Features, GCC 4.9 RC1 Has Been Released | GNU | 2014-04-11 |
| Torvalds Is Unconvinced By LTO'ing A Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2014-04-09 |
| LTO Support Coming To Linux 3.15, Making For A Faster Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2014-04-07 |
| Link-Time Optimizations Near Reality For x86 Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2014-04-01 |
| GCC 4.9 Is Working Towards A Possible Release In April | GNU | 2014-03-19 |
| "Mega Drivers" Being Proposed For A Faster Mesa | Intel | 2013-08-08 |
| GCC Link-Time Optimizations On The ARM Cortex-A9 | Arm | 2013-03-02 |
| Link-Time Optimizations With GCC 4.8 | GNU | 2013-02-09 |
| Optimizing Mesa Performance With Compiler Flags | Mesa | 2013-01-27 |
