Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

LKML and patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0fc810ae3ae110f9e2fcccce80fc8c8d62f97907

He cites his work as being a variant of a patch submitted by another developer, Josh Poimboeuf. It's a team effort folks :)

Damn, those are not rookie numbers!

ITT: people upset claiming Torvalds is political getting all political on a post about kernel improvements.

ITT: one reasonable comment about the topic and a shit ton of Putinist apologizers and hexbear brigading

Edit: three comments

The discussion on LKML was so civilised compared to this one.
I wonder what the phoronix one is like...

Great, now we're not going to catch the next zero day compression vulnerability. :)

What's the catch? Only on a specific price of hardware? Or is this an improvement on any hardware?

Without Russians?

https://media.tenor.com/McIkrl9aRFwAAAAM/worriedface.gif

Still not saying it's any good after he became geopolitical.