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["Ray Andrews" <randrews@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:35:46 -0500, jasorn <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jasorn,

I enjoyed your comments in both posts:

> Udo Kuhnt wrote:
>> Of course I will have to do the same with my DPMI version, and
>> merging it with the changes done for v190;J2 and J3 is just as important
>> to me.

> Glad to hear you feel the same for your own.

So he should, and once I see what he's done, I'll be importing it
*even* if my code is not adopted.

>> Also, if you refer to your core as "the future", and the other ones as
>> "the past", please take into consideration that this depends on the
>> point of view. I could just as well say that the DPMI version is the
>> future, and that all of your work to reduce the Conventional Memory
>> usage therefore is insignificant in the long term.

> Some truth here.  But it seem to me it will be a very long time before
> conventional memory usage ceases to be significant.

Right, the difference in the first place between Arachne and BB is that
Arachne is small light and fast. If we stop worrying about code
efficiency why not just use IE?

> Make 1 or 2 of those functions we wish we had and we'll use your
> version, period :)

Ha! You know, I've thought of doing that, but it's not my style.
I want the other developers to use my code simply because it's better
code. The fact is that I'm not much of a 'features' guy, I'm basicaly
an optimizer, I just like to take others code and make it run better.
But, even then, my distro already has many little functional
improvements, mostly just little things though. However, it has over
100K more free memory! That's enough space to add many real 
improvements like SSL or a Java engine.



Regards,


Ray Andrews
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