[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] libroot improvements

Hi,

Von: Artur Wyszynski <aljen-mlists@xxxxxxx>
> while i was trying to port Chrome to Haiku, i came across a problem with 
> broken/missing wide chars support
> (Chrome is using them everywhere), looking at current libroot status i 
> noticed a mix composed by different
> versions of glibc with some features enabled/disabled and some ports of 
> bsd code there.
> Then i removed completly glibc and friends mixes from libroot and 
> started porting libc and Sun math library from FreeBSD.
> Now it's working as expected, with full posix support (even c99), wide 
> chars enabled, support for locales, etc.
> Don't worry, it won't break binary compatibility, because it's ported & 
> enabled only for gcc4 build, gcc2 is still using old
> libroot+glibc&friends.

Wow, that must have been some work load!

> Things noticed by me (and not only, thx for testing guys :P):
> * system is noticable faster compared to other builds, i mean gui and 
> boot; for virtual box on my machine (dont know how others and i didn't
> tested this on real hardware yet) boot time was decrased from 24-26 
> seconds to 14 (don't know the reason)
> * gui is more responsible, i think it's because new sun math library

I am currently compiling an image with the patch. Looking forward to seeing it 
in action. Impatient question: Are we using another allocator now?

Best regards,
-Stephan

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