The rule « when it’s really slow and shouldn’t be, the cause is really simple » verifies once again. Yesterday evening, I thought I’d fix Sylpheed-Claws’ « Select All » which was really slow. It was fast on a ~100 mails folder, took 11 seconds on a 5000 mails folder, and I killed it before it finished in a…
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sylpheed.org domain
So, thanks to Darko, we’ll be getting control of the sylpheed.org domain. It’ll be hosted by my friend Yann on develog.com. I just finished transferring the webpages and databases… The rest (CVS, Mailing-lists, etc) will stay on sourceforge. So, soon enough, we’ll effectively switch servers. The only thing that’ll be visible is that http://claws.sylpheed.org/…
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Wow!
Wow, Paul has a blog :-) Nice :-) Also, and I was sure it would happen, 2.6.12 has been released just the week-end during which I didn’t spend a single minute on the computer. Bah, I’ll test it later. Little side note concerning my blog: one of my coworkers told me he didn’t comment because…
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IMAP-based diplomatic incidents
I’m currently in the process of fixing Claws’ IMAP code, which blocks sucks in a more general manner, especially wrt speed Fixing blocking is painful but simple. I chose the multithread way, look at the big functions that freeze the interface and move their work into an helper thread (while the main thread does gtk_main_iteration…
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Claws 1.9.11
Paul released a new version again! This one fixes most of the problems that people were experiencing with aspell’s support. It should work reasonably correctly, although I’m sure someone could find glitches. Too bad, a gcc 2.9x user tried to compile this version but not the previous 1.9.9, because I’ve put a declaration in the…
19/05/2005 Lire la suite...
