avx-512 — 3 Technical Articles

Oct 31, 2025 · Backend Development

How Go’s New Green Tea GC Slashes CPU Overhead by Up to 40%

The article examines Go 1.25’s experimental Green Tea garbage collector, explains why the traditional mark‑sweep approach hurts modern CPUs, details the page‑oriented redesign and its AVX‑512 vector acceleration, and shows how these changes can cut GC‑related CPU usage by 10‑40%.

GoPerformanceavx-512

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How Go’s New Green Tea GC Slashes CPU Overhead by Up to 40%

Java Backend Technology

Jul 26, 2020 · Fundamentals

Why Linus Torvalds Wants AVX-512 Gone: Inside Intel’s Power‑Hungry Instruction Set

Linus Torvalds lambasts Intel’s AVX‑512 extension as a ‘power virus’, arguing it bloats CPUs, serves only niche benchmarks, and harms everyday performance, while noting Intel’s recent move to limit AVX‑512 to large cores in Alder Lake and recalling his past clashes over Intel’s security patches.

CPU performanceInstruction SetIntel

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Why Linus Torvalds Wants AVX-512 Gone: Inside Intel’s Power‑Hungry Instruction Set

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Jul 18, 2020 · Fundamentals

Linus Torvalds Demands AVX-512’s End: Intel’s Power‑Hungry Extension Hurts Users

Linus Torvalds publicly denounced Intel’s AVX‑512 instruction set, calling it a ‘power‑virus’ that bloats CPUs for niche benchmark gains, urging Intel to abandon it in favor of simpler, more efficient code that benefits everyday users rather than specialized high‑performance scenarios.

CPU architectureIntelLinux kernel

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Linus Torvalds Demands AVX-512’s End: Intel’s Power‑Hungry Extension Hurts Users