Is it worth delaying the release?

Mon Nov 13 19:40:33 UTC 2006

Hi Bryce,
I think it is a good idea to release the solid 3.8 version.

Having said that, I am looking forward to the 3.9 release because I really want
to try using Exupery on my sub-pixel font filtering algorithm to see if it can
speed it up. Currently this is in 3.9, and I don't want to port it all back to
an earlier image/vm, especially since you are moving forward to 3.9.

This is probably a topic for another thread, but could you tell from looking at
the attached method if it is a good candidate for speed-up. It has nested loops,
does lots of at: and integerAt:Put: (prim 166) , and SmallInteger bitShift: ,
bitAnd: , *, + , // , and some Float calcs.

Cheers,
Andy

<bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:17751.33773.546927.574750 at gargle.gargle.HOWL...
>
> Is it worth delaying the release until after the 3.9 upgrade and
> the VMMaker upgrade? I've just started moving to a 3.9 image. There
> are 24 failing tests, most are because 3.9 produces different
> bytecodes than 3.8 for some things. This seems to be due to block
> processing but I haven't fully investigated.
>
> There are a few other failures including one due to a bug in 3.9.
>
> Is it more useful for me to release as is. A solid release on 3.8
> before moving to 3.9 or to upgrade everything now. I'm going to
> upgrade next anyway. I'm not going to maintain different tests for
> both releases so once I fix them for 3.9 they will fail in 3.8.
>
> Bryce

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