Glibc 2.29 Is Offering Up Some Nice Performance Improvements | Linux Today

Glibc 2.29 Is Offering Up Some Nice Performance Improvements

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Michael Larabel
Feb 4, 2019

Glibc 2.29 was released a few days back and like most GNU C Library releases — particularly in recent times — does offer up more CPU performance optimizations… Some early benchmarks done this weekend do show some nice performance improvements in select workloads at least out of our initial benchmarking.

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Michael Larabel

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