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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
- side of ARDI before I can get to those.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-