Sometimes optimising means shaving milliseconds after spending lots of time on subtle algorithms… And sometimes it just means discovering huge counter-performant parts in your fast mail user agent. The advantage of the latter is that, for similar amounts of work, you get much more results. O(n^2) algorithms are algorithms which execution time is proportional…
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Biloba dans la presse!
J’ai eu aujourd’hui la surprise (et la joie) de voir mentionné Biloba, le jeu de Guillaume Demougeot, dans une demi-page du Linux Pratique n°35 ! Sympathique !…
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What’s happening to Sylpheed (Main)?
Although we don’t sync from Sylpheed anymore, we still check its progress in case a bugfix could apply to us… But, strangely, nothing seems to happen on Sylpheed since more than one month. Hiroyuki left #sylpheed in early April, posted only one or two messages on his mailing-list, and the last line in Sylpheed’s ChangeLog…
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Impatient
I’m quite impatient to get the next release(s) out of the door… There will be, very soon, both 2.2.0 and 2.1.2 releases… While 2.1.2 will be rather « unsexy » as a bugfix release, it should be the most stable of 2.1.x branch, adapted to people not wanting the new features. Concerning 2.2.0, we’ll have a…
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faster IMAP in CVS
This week-end I’ve been able to make IMAP much faster, by caching the folders’ UIDNEXT property and only SELECT’ing folders when they changed… Hardcore IMAP users should feel a nice difference. Anyone wanting to try that out, it’s already in the daily snapshot….
18/04/2006 Lire la suite...
