Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> Ian Piumarta's 3.0pre1 is nice!  I especially like the long-awaited
> support for OS mouse click events.
> 
> In response to this new release, I've updated my Unix VM patches page.
> Unless otherwise noted, the patches on this page all work aginst 3.0pre1:
> 
>         http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/squeak/
> 
> As usual, you have to wait until 6:00am EST tomorrow morning (Monday),
> before the web page will update....
> 
> The status is:
> 
>         - Bert F.'s patch for 32-bit xshm support is now in 3.0pre1 -- yeah!
> 
>         - I've posted a fix for a bug that kept xshm from ever being used --
> doh!

Does anybody knows an example, which shows better performance if -xshm is
used?
I haven't found one so far...

> 
>         - A few small fixes are still on the page but not included in 3.0pre1:
> responding to keymap changes,

> compiling without jitter,

Jitter isn't existent under Linux:
- make install doesn't find j3;
- "0 tinyBenchmark" shows no difference between jitter switched on or off.

Greetings,

Stephan

> and retrying
> readdir() if the error is EINTR.
> 
>         - My generalization of Ian's "async IO" is still useful, though it
> looks like Ian is cooking up an even better version for the future.  You
> still might want to grab it if you ever get stuttery sound output, or if
> you are a developper having trouble quickly getting low-level OS events
> up into Squeak.
> 
>         - The sound support in 3.0pre1 is unchanged from 2.8pre5.  So the story
> is the same: if you want recording, or if you are on SunOS or
> Solaris, you probably still want to grab a sound file from the above
> page.  Otherwise, sit tight and be happy.
> 
> -Lex

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Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
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