Linux & open source
Linux 7.3 Made BTRFS Up to 5.7x Faster, and It Did It by Deleting Code. Here Is How
The headline on Linux 7.3 is a filesystem that got dramatically quicker, and almost every gain came from stripping out a bottleneck that was quietly costing more than it saved. I went through the actual patches, the fio numbers, and the maintainers behind them to explain what changed and why it matters for anyone running Linux.