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Thursday, January 16th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 12:32a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 16, 2020
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 16, 2020 is available. | | 4:01p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-lan-config and phpmyadmin), openSUSE (openssl-1_1), Oracle (firefox and kernel), Red Hat (.NET Core, git, java-11-openjdk, and thunderbird), SUSE (Mesa, python3, shibboleth-sp, slurm, and tigervnc), and Ubuntu (libpcap and nginx). | | 6:50p |
GNU Guile 3.0.0 released
Version 3.0.0 of the Guile implementation of the Scheme programming
language has been released. There's a lot of work here, including a new,
lower-level byte code implementation, interleaved internal definitions, a
new exception implementation, and much more. "Guile programs now run up to 4 times faster, relative to Guile 2.2,
thanks to just-in-time (JIT) native code generation. Notably, this
brings the performance of "eval" as written in Scheme back to the level
of 'eval' written in C, as in the days of Guile 1.8." | | 7:35p |
[$] Scheduling for the Android display pipeline
Android users make heavy use of the displays on their devices for almost
all of their interaction; good display performance is thus critical for a
satisfactory user experience. Achieving that performance is not always
easy; there are a lot of pieces that need to work together, and the kernel
does not always support this collaboration as well as one might like. The
Android team is currently considering a number of combinations of existing
kernel features and possible enhancements in its efforts to provide the
best display experience possible. |
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