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From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews)
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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.
That bug has already been fixed locally, but you'll still have to wait
for 1.99n before you can see the change.
As mentioned above, Mat's been working heavily on the new blitter
lately. Vaune took two days of vacation. I've been tied up with the
business side of ARDI for a while. Bill Goldman has been attending
the World Series of Poker, in Las Vegas, and Cotton has been working
on an incredibly powerful debugging tool. So other than the fast
blitter and some key bug fixes, there probably won't be any other
major surprises in 1.99n.
BTW, in the long run, ARDI tremendously benefits from a significantly
faster blitter, a slightly more rested Vaune, a big investor taking to
ARDI, a slightly more rested Bill and the cool debugging tool Cotton
is working on.
If you have sent any e-mail directly to me (instead of to questions or
bugs), then it still may be a few more days before I can answer it. I
have almost two hundred pieces of e-mail that require some sort of
response from me, and I still have a little more to do on the business
