2.3 for Unix

Markus Kohler markus_kohler at hp.com
Thu Jan 28 12:48:09 UTC 1999


Ian Piumarta wrote:
> 
> ftp://alix.inria.fr/pub/squeak/unix/2.3 contains the usual stuff for:
> 
>         alpha-osf1-v4.0
>         i386-linux-2.0.36       (linked against glibc-2.0.7)
>         i386-linux-2.1.24       (linked against libc-5.4.38)
>         sparc-solaris-2.5.1
>         sparc-sunos-4.1.4
> 
> with the regular four-file snack-packs in the "distributions" directory.
> 
> Major noteworthies:
> 
>   * graphics-related bug fixed (can anyone spot what it is?  this bug
>     has been there since 1.13 and nobody noticed!)
> 

Jumping windows ?
Moving the window up to the border sometimes let them jump. 

>   * user-defined primitives are gone (definitively! -- use named
>     primitives instead)
> 
>   * there's an optional low-res 1/50 second clock using ITIMER_REAL and
>     SIGALRM, avoiding lots of relatively expensive calls to gettimeofday()

Ah, sometime ago I profiled the VM and was shocked how much time was
spend in 
this routine. 

Markus
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