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"some workloads saw improvements, overall system performance slightly declined, and binary sizes increased." So -O3 isn't paying off in the Ubuntu packaging world for now and will be reverted soon.

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[–] lengau@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd much rather see RISC-V take over.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

It's gonna happen I think.

Desktop ARM is great but it's still locked behind like 2 vendors (Snapdragon and Apple) and has hardware more locked down than x86.

x86 is, well, x86.

RISC-V might be slower right now but China's mega investment is going to force others to rush into the ISA to try and beat them to market. Give it 5 years and we're gonna see a totally different landscape to now.