Summary of the week of September 4, 2023

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Starfield analysis with different hardware

In response to this entry, there is a list of analyses of Starfield tested with different hardware.

Gigabyte update for DDR5

An update has appeared for Gigabyte motherboards that solves a data corruption problem in DDR5 memories.

Major change in Gnome 45

One of the negative consequences of the current fashionable version numbering style is that it is not possible to distinguish radical changes in software. That happens to Gnome 45, which will be incompatible with extensions developed for previous versions. Developers will have to maintain a version of the extension compatible pre45 and another post45.

EXT4 improvements in Linux 6.6

Linux 6.6 has brought changes to the EXT4 file system that imply performance improvements. In the tests carried out, a 34% reduction in writing time is observed when 32 processes write to a file concurrently.

SMT in an ARM processor

The Kirin 9000 series is an ARM processor developed by Huawei intended for mobiles to which SMT seems to have been enabled in 4 of its 8 cores.

All details about cURL

cURL began in 1996 (at that time it was called httpget). It was created by Rafael Sagula, who later transferred the project to Daniel. Daniel renamed the project to cURL in 1998. In 2000, he extracted the network functionality to the libcurl library, and curl became a command-line wrapper. Article with all the details about cURL.

Blue screen with 13th generation CPUs

The thirteenth generation of Intel processors (Raptor Lake) are causing blue screens in Windows. The company has confirmed that it is their fault and that they are working on the microcode, which will be distributed in a BIOS update.

Performance drop due to Zenbleed

Tests have appeared that measure a 15% performance drop when the patch for the Zenbleed vulnerability is applied on AMD processors. Despite this drop, it seems that games are not affected by the patch.

Resource monitor for Linux with Windows style

Someone has created a graphical resource monitor for Linux that has the appearance provided by the Windows Task Manager. It is called Mission Center and is still in development, so some measurements are missing, such as GPU load per process.

Ryzen 9 7945HX

Someone has brought us a Ryzen 9 7945HX, a portable processor with 16 Zen 4 cores. It is in fifth position in the general ranking although it is the most powerful among mobile CPUs. It has a performance similar to the also portable Core i9-13980HX and both lead the ranking of the most efficient micros.