Great! Thanks, Pedro. > -----Original Message----- > From: Pedro Giffuni [mailto:p...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 14:12 > To: OOo Apache <dev@openoffice.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Updating APR ... > > Hi Dennis; > > > > Pedro, > > > > Please say more about what it means to "update APR support carried in > AOO." [ ... ] > Hi Dennis, > > You are reading too much ;). > > All I will do is update a couple of tarballs: > > apr 1.4.5 --> apr-1.5.2 > apr-util-1.4.1 --> apr-util-1.5.4 [orcmid]
Clear enough. > > > In the near future I will reap out the core of rtl_random() and replace > the implementation with the APR equivalent. This will be within SAL, the > API will remain untouched and the rest of AOO, you won't even notice the > change. > > I am hoping to prepare a presentation about it for the next ApacheConEU. [orcmid] The documentation that I found on the APR random functions provides nothing about the implementation and its characteristics. Have you found anything or must one examine the code? > > APR has some nice stuff used by apache-httpd and is very portable: > I think the mutex and pools goodies are good candidates to do the same, > but this is progressive work and pretty much depends on my spare time. > > If the Java replacement plans advance sufficiently to get rid of SAL > then ... great! > > Pedro. > > On 05/24/16 12:20, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > Hello; > > > > As part of some enhancements I am preparing to generate better random > > numbers, I took a look at the random number generator in SAL and > > I found it's very limited. > > > > I think even the "regular" KISS PRNG I implemented in Calc does a > > better job generating random numbers but instead of moving my PRNG > > to SAL I will be using the one in APR. > > > > Looking at the SAL APIs I also think APR can replace much of that > > functionality as well. > > > > So, just to let you know, I am in the process of updating the APR > > support we carry in AOO: it should be also useful for serf, and we > > could use it for tomcat, which we may want to upgrade and use more > > extensively in the future as well. > > > > Pedro. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
