> Thanks for taking the time to explain and for your additional research. > A lot has to do with luck, time of day, and where the person is located.
You're welcome, Peter. > One thing I could not figure out is the comment at the top of gar.gnome.mk. > How is the default location Sweden? Is gnome.org in Sweden? Indeed, it is. :) [1] Actually, I wondered about this comment myself before. But since there are mirrors out there (see the MIRRORS file) and I happen to know the master gnome.org site is located in Sweden, I quickly forgot about that again. Your question made me check on details, though. Maybe interesting for you to know. Also, thanks for keeping me on my toes. ;) After a brief check it turned out, "some" of these mirrors appear to be broken or of limited usefulness only. Reported to the sysadmins already. However, there *are* mirrors out there, that might be closer to you or better connected (network wise). Out of the two USA mirrors, buffalo.edu seems to be fully synced. Also, after some quick searching, it appears, there used to be much more active mirrors. I guess that comment dates back to a time, where picking a mirror out of a large list still was more common, and acc.umu.se was not yet blessed with an infrastructure as it is today. > Nonetheless, you're correct. I forever tweak and even incremental > improvements in performance over many packages will make a potentially > large difference. > > I'll keep experimenting and will report anything new. Gladly appreciated. :) guenther [1] See the master http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/ [2] and go up one directory. [2] aka http://download.gnome.org/ -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} -- garnome-list mailing list garnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list