[trimmed out the discuss list] On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:42:38PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
[on gui] > There are also some plainly embarrassing bugs, like the fact that underlining > still doesn't work. Useful to know, I was about to try using it :-) > Much of the text system code is in need of an overhaul, because it's > currently a mess of premature > optimisation that none of the current developers actually understands. Because of the program I'm hacking on, I've been reading through quite a bit of the Text System code lately. I did notice a lot of SEL/Imp caching going on. I seem to recall that your new runtime was/is supposed to improve this. Would it allow these optimisations to be reverted? .pdf _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
