Re: Bikeshedding the invisible-char

2009-01-20 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2009, 11:59 +0100 schrieb Christian Dywan: > Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:50 -0500 > schrieb Yu Feng : > > > Hi Federico, > > > > If I can have a word on this: > > > > The big circle is wider than most characters. > > > > Compare the following 3 patterns: (10 chars, monospa

Re: Bikeshedding the invisible-char

2009-01-20 Thread Christian Dywan
Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:50 -0500 schrieb Yu Feng : > Hi Federico, > > If I can have a word on this: > > The big circle is wider than most characters. > > Compare the following 3 patterns: (10 chars, monospace) > ●● > •• > 1234567890 > > When people type in a password they do

Re: g_malloc overhead

2009-01-20 Thread Martín Vales
BJörn Lindqvist escribió: Actually, a custom allocator could be useful even in the general case. Malloc is a system call and has quite bad performance on certain platforms (windows in particular i think). Something like the gslice allocator could Probably improve performance a bit. gslice i be