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 to the [...]
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 !
Finally fed up with SF.net’s multiple downtimes and “hardware problems” that brought down anoncvs for a month, dev cvs for a week, and mailing-list lagging for multiples days without even an announcement… We moved CVS and mailing-lists to dotsrc.org.
The change went really smoothly, apart a little glitch, where I forgot to manually remove the subscribers [...]
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 is:
2006-03-29
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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 few nice [...]