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Introducing architecture variants
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Re: Introducing architecture variants
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a strange comparison. If you're negotiating deals worth billions of dollars, or even just millions, I'd strongly suggest not doing so with a hangover.
> If you're negotiating deals worth billions of dollars, or even just millions, I'd strongly suggest not doing so with a hangover. ...have you met salespeople? Buying lap dances is a legitimate business expense for them. You'd be surprised how much personal rapport matters and facts don't. In all fairness, I only know about 8 and 9 figure deals, maybe at 10 and 11 salespeople grow ethics...
I strongly suspect ethics are inversely proportional to the size of the deal.
Re: Introducing architecture variants
#63Re: Introducing architecture variants
#64Announce was here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-vari... and key point: "Previous benchmarks we have run (where we rebuilt the entire archive for x86-64-v3 57) show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement and some packages, mostly those that are somewhat numerical in nature, improve more than that."
Are there any use cases where that 1% is worth any hassle whatsoever?
Any hyperscaler will take that 1% in a heartbeat.
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#65"Gentoo x86-64-v3 binary packages available" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39255458
"Changes/Optimized Binaries for the AMD64 Architecture v2" (2025) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Optimized_Binaries_fo... :
> Note that other distributions use higher microarchitecture levels. For example RHEL 9 uses x86-64-v2 as the baseline, RHEL 10 uses x86-64-v3, and other distros provide optimized variants (OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Ubuntu).
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#66Can we please have an "apt rollback" function?
Yes sure
apt (3.1.7) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Julian Andres Klode ] * test-history: Adjust for as-installed testing . [ Simon Johnsson ] * Add history undo, redo, and rollback features
Re: Introducing architecture variants
#67This is quite good news but it’s worth remembering that it’s a rare piece of software in the modern scientific/numerical world that can be compiled against the versions in distro package managers, as versions can significantly lag upstream months after release. If you’re doing that sort of work, you also shouldn’t use pre-compiled PyPi packages for the same reason - you leave a ton of performance on the table by not…
My RSS reader trains a model every week or so and takes 15 minutes total with plain numpy, scikit-learn and all that. Intel MKL can do the same job in about half the time as the default BLAS. So you are looking at a noticeable performance boost but zero bullshit install with uv is worth a lot. If I was interested in improving the model than yeah I might need to train 200 of them interactively and I’d really feel the…
Out of interest, what reader is this? Sounds interesting
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#68There was a fat elf project to solve this problem at one point I thought.
Link?
Maybe parent is referring to icculus' FatELF proposal from fifteen years ago? https://icculus.org/fatelf/
Re: Introducing architecture variants
#69Announce was here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-vari... and key point: "Previous benchmarks we have run (where we rebuilt the entire archive for x86-64-v3 57) show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement and some packages, mostly those that are somewhat numerical in nature, improve more than that."
> show that most packages show a slight (around 1%) performance improvement This takes me back to arguing with Gentoo users 20 years ago who insisted that compiling everything from source for their machine made everything faster. The consensus at the time was basically "theoretically, it's possible, but in practice, gcc isn't really doing much with the extra instructions anyway". Then there's stuff like glibc which h…
FWIW the cool thing about gentoo was the "use-flags", to enable/disable compile-time features in various packages. Build some apps with GTK or with just the command-line version, with libao or pulse-audio, etc. Nowadays some distro packages have "optional dependencies" and variants like foobar-cli and foobar-gui, but not nearly as comprehensive as Gentoo of course. Learning about some minor custom CFLAGS was just part of the fun (and yeah some "funroll-loops" site was making fun of "gentoo ricers" way back then already).
I used Gentoo a lot, jeez, between 20 and 15 years ago, and the install guide guiding me through partitioning disks, formatting disks, unpacking tarballs, editing config files, and running grub-install etc, was so incredibly valuable to me that I have trouble expressing it.
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#70> means to better exploit modern processors without compromising support for older hardware
very odd choice of words. "better utilize/leverage" is perhaps the right thing to say here.