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Intel's Clear Linux Distribution Offers Fast Out-Of-The-Box Performance (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the new-to-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In a 10-way Linux distribution battle including OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and others, one of the fastest out-of-the-box performers was a surprising contender: Intel's Clear Linux Project that's still in its infancy. Clear Linux ships in an optimized form for delivering best performance on x86 hardware with enabling many compiler optimizations by default, highly-tuned software bundles, function multi-versioning for the most performant code functions based upon CPU, AutoFDO for automated feedback-direct optimizations and other performance-driven features. Clear Linux is a rolling-release-inspired distribution that issues new versions a few times a day and is up to version 5700.

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  1. Different compiler by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Intel's own compiler in many cases generated code that runs 15%-20% faster than code compiled under GCC.

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    1. Re:Different compiler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A few years back, GCC took out all the processor-specific optimizations and put in only general purpose optimizations

      WTF are you talking about? That is patently false.

    2. Re:Different compiler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Clear Linux also comes packaged with spyware

      From the 1st paragraph at that link:

      The end users may disable the telemetry component of Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture or even redirect where records go if they wish to collect for themselves.

      Not the point. Telemetry collection should be opt-in, not opt-out.

  2. Version 5700 by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clear Linux is a rolling-release-inspired distribution that issues new versions a few times a day and is up to version 5700.

    Big deal. Firefox will catch up with that shortly.

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