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Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance
Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window..
There have been patches from Google for enabling AutoFDO and Propeller support when compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM Clang. Google's earlier observations on adapting the Linux kernel for Clang AutoFDO and Propeller yielded very nice returns: "Our empirical data demonstrates significant performance improvements with AutoFDO and Propeller, up to 10% on microbenchmarks and up to 5% on large warehouse-scale benchmarks.
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