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- In your message (Tue, 9 May 95 01:09 MDT), you wrote:
- >1.99n is *at least* a week away.
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- >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.
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- I'm not sure I agree with this. I find some apps almost completely
- unuseable even using MITSHM on the local console.
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- Tim.
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