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Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 8 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Microsoft; how can we bog down this OS even more?

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Our patch improves data harvesting speed by 13%!

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Great! That means we can harvest 20% more customer data with only 7% more slowdown!
-some MS exec, probably.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

... in one benchmark.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago

2.6% increase in thread ops when copying data from user space seems pretty significant.