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openSUSE 12.2 released

openSUSE 12.2 released

Posted Sep 5, 2012 16:10 UTC (Wed) by safrax (guest, #83688)
Parent article: openSUSE 12.2 released

"accelerated functions in glibc and Qt"

What's this mean exactly?


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openSUSE 12.2 released

Posted Sep 5, 2012 16:27 UTC (Wed) by krakensden (subscriber, #72039) [Link]

I think glibc, at least, has seen a burst of development after the old maintainer left.

openSUSE 12.2 released

Posted Sep 5, 2012 21:35 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

'stuff is faster'. Very noticeable in for example zypper, which feels like it has a fire lit up under its ass, yet there have been no changes in the speed area in zypper other than the recompile and newer glibc.

openSUSE 12.2 released

Posted Sep 6, 2012 6:26 UTC (Thu) by yoshi314 (guest, #36190) [Link]

afaik this release of glibc has yet again introduced some more sse2/3/4 and architecture specific optimizations.

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