[robotblake]

Great find and always excited to see performance improvements from discoveries in older code!

On the other side, I'm always sad / unsettled to see the comments on Phoronix articles like this, the tribalism, the accusations, etc.

[ta988]

The Phoronix forum is notorious for its trolls and agressive/dismissive behavior from posters.

[jbm]

A trollish and aggressive board would be 4chan, Something Awful, Fucked Company, or Twitter. Phoronix strikes seems to be a niche board with strong opinions; basically the same as any BBS I used to visit. Calling it tribalism and accusatory, based on the thread related to this topic, is pearl clutching.

The negative comments I saw in the thread are of the style below.

> That also tells us that AMD has not bothered to fix this for 20 years. On the other hand, I welcome their stepped-up efforts to improve the Linux experience for their end-users. There are still some areas where more participating could yield some benefits though, e.g. glibc or better upstream compiler support/tuning.

and

> It seems Linux competition is so slow AMD didn't even notice such suboptimal performance.

Unsettled? This is milquetoast criticism at best.

Link to the forum below in case I missed something. I've never visited the forum before and am not deeply involved in Linux, other than happily using it for my home computer.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

[ta988]

Look a few other threads you will see. The ones about Wayland, gtk or KDE are notorious. But yeah it is nowhere near 4chan levels.