Archive for August, 2006

Memory consumption

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Sylpheed-Claws isn’t especially heavy on RAM, but something that can feel strange is that when switching from a big folder to an empty one, the RAM usage doesn’t go down. This is because the GtkCTree widget uses GMemChunks to allocate memory, and this thing doesn’t free it when not needed anymore; rather, the glib reuses [...]

Optimizing stuff again

Friday, August 25th, 2006

There was still room for improvement :-)
_() for translation is slow
%f is slow
localtime() is slow – but there I didn’t find any workaround
thousands of fread()/fwrite() is slow, mmap is faster.

Les photos du mariage sont en ligne !

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Ça y est, on a enfin fini le tri de nos photos de mariage… Pas facile ! Elles sont donc en ligne sur notre site… Vous pouvez même mettre des commentaires ;-)
Ma petite soeur Fanny et son copain William nous ont aussi envoyé leur film, (en version française non sous-titrée, of course, donc mes chers [...]

Little cat

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Here’s a photo of the little cat we just adopted. His name’s Cowboy, and he can’t stay quiet for more than five minutes straight.

I took the photo with the new Nikon D50 that I just bought, and that makes a refreshing change after the crappy 2MP compact that I had! The most usual cause of [...]

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