Summary of the week of October 9, 2023

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GPUs now have more cache than CPUs

In this extensive article they explain why graphics processors have ended up having more cache than general-purpose processors.

New driver doubles Arc performance

A new driver doubles the performance of Intel's Arc GPUs. The improvements come mainly in DirectX 11 titles although there are also changes for 12.

Ardour 8 available

Among many other new features, Ardour 8 comes with something called Quick Group, with which most of the controls related to the mix now work on all selected tracks and buses.

Block access to pages, redirect and enable cache

Now that we have the.htaccess file operational on our home server, we can make some configurations that will allow us to control access to certain pages, redirect URLs and tell the browser which files it should cache to save bandwidth.