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Re: status report



In your message (Tue, 9 May 95 01:09 MDT), you wrote:
>1.99n is *at least* a week away.
>
>Mat is in the middle of his new blitter mods, so he needs to finish up
>his work before we can begin testing what will become 1.99n.  There
>are also a variety of bug fixes that we need to make before we can
>release 1.99n.
>
>The reason only some Linux users are finding 1.99m to be ridiculously
>slow is related to some new cursor handling code we put in.  Some Mac
>applications frequently (once through the event loop, for instance)
>set the cursor to the same value.  Executor used to detect this
>special case and ignore these extra calls.  However, 1.99m doesn't
>ignore them, it passes the calls right on to the low-level cursor
>manipulating code, which results in *a lot* of traffic between
>Executor and the X-server.  If the traffic is done via shared memory,
>it doesn't affect things too much, but if you can't use shared memory
>(say you're using an X-terminal), then you lose big time.

I'm not sure I agree with this.  I find some apps almost completely 
unuseable even using MITSHM on the local console.

Tim.



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