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Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] million@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is clear doing that is unique and what are the trade offs?

Why isn’t this mainstreamed into other distros?

[–] Pumasuedeblue@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clear Linux was maintained by Intel and specifically tuned to Intel hardware. The speed enhancement it has over other distros is only possible on a very limited set of hardware.

[–] million@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Interesting - is that kernel level thing? Could other distros use that on the right hardware or is too much to maintain multiple kernels that are that hardware specific?

[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

The mentioned performance governor runs the CPU permanently at maximum frequency, which is obviously bad on battery powered devices and on devices with lacking thermal headroom. I think it might cause problems in virtualized environments as well but I'm not sure about that.