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  • Optimisation by killing O(n^2) algorithms

    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…

    29/05/2006 Lire la suite...

  • 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 !…

    17/05/2006 Lire la suite...

  • 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…

    03/05/2006 Lire la suite...

  • 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…

    03/05/2006 Lire la suite...