#performance

Inkscape 1.4.4 boosts performance and crushes crashes

Inkscape 1.4.4 is a regular maintenance update for the stable Inkscape 1.4.x line. It primarily fixes many crashes and bugs, but also boosts performance when handling many objects and brings two small new features. Here's a summary of what to expect from the new release: 20 crash fixes , among them for three nasty bugs where Inkscape wouldn't even start almost 20 other bug fixes 6 changes that improve performance a new palette a new button for rotating stars and polygons into their 'neutral' or 'upright' position 27 updated interface translations 15 updated documentation translations installat

Inkscape News · EN

Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance

A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library...

Phoronix · EN

Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default

Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...

Phoronix · EN

Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning

Naive byte-range caching can waste gigabytes of origin bandwidth on small requests. We rebuilt our cache architecture in Pingora to coordinate partial fetches automatically, cutting R2 p99 latency in half.

Cloudflare Blog · EN