{
  "id": 19154739,
  "title": "ChaCha AVX-512 Optimization For Linux 7.5 Yields Up To 99% Improvement On AMD Zen 5",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/chacha-avx-512-optimization-for-linux-7-5-yields-up-to-99-improvement",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-09T12:35:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChaCha-AVX-512-Linux-7.5"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Linux kernel's ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of Intel CPUs with AVX-512 (Skylake) that suffered from down-clocking under use. But now slated for arrival with Linux 7.5 is tuning the code to perform better on today's AVX-512 Intel and AMD processors that don't suffer from this limitation. In turn the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}