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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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