On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Jeremy White <jwh...@codeweavers.com> wrote: >> This could also help. If I recall correctly, Jeremy White mentioned >> at Wineconf 2008 that this was a major reason they haven't invested >> serious energy into one themselves: they had a hard time finding an >> application that they cared about that benefited significantly from a >> DIB engine. Usually, bottlenecks were elsewhere. Whether they didn't >> care about AutoCAD, or whether they hadn't tested with it, or whether >> my memory is just faulty, I'm not sure. > > Yes, that's essentially right, although note that we did invest some > fairly serious energy into the DIB engine prior to coming to that conclusion. > (I remember how pleased Huw was that his benchmarks were 1000 times > faster, and how displeased he was when it made Powerpoint slower...) > > That effort all went into Wine, and I hope and believe that it has > helped others as they have worked on the DIB engine. > > But we don't have any secret stash of DIB engine code to further our > evil plans for world domination. We rely on our gorgeous femme bots > and Alexandre's magic 'all' patch for that <grin>. > > Cheers, > > Jeremy >
To clarify, it's not about having secret DIB engine code, it's about saying "I guess we just won't find time to provide useful feedback until some company sponsors it...", as I saw several times during the old threads. From Jeff
