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Re:Raspberry Pi is now a public company on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @07:10AM (#40656719)
Something people often miss in threads about this:

> Raspberry Pi Ltd, the public company, is the commercial subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Only one, Redfall. They're only closing Arkane Austin, not Arkane Lyon. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkane_Studios#Games_developed
This is from February, is there any update or progress?
I guess I’m Wikipedia’s product then.
Re:Firefox 123.0 is now available on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:06AM (#39442951)
Found this: >Lee Salzman (:lsalzman) landed off-main-thread canvas for macOS, Linux and Android back in December for Firefox 123 – and that’s given us a 4-7% boost on Speedometer3!

Here: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/01/22/happy-new-year-t...

Re:Firefox 123.0 is now available on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:02AM (#39442902)
> Improved PGO optimizations for macOS ARM64 and Android

> Off-main-thread canvas on macOS, Linux and Android

What kind of improvements are we looking at? Any benchmarks for these?

> 1 files changed, 55 insertions, 249 deletions

I nominate this commit as one of the best ever - improves security and performance while removing code.

More terrific work from the creator of WireGuard.