[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] libroot improvements
- From: Artur Wyszynski <aljen-mlists@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:54:37 +0100
Stephan Assmus pisze:
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!
yeah, almost 1.5 week, working for few hours after work and all weekends :)
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?
I'm looking forward to hear your comments when you test it ! :)
And answering your question, nope, haiku side of libroot is intact (os
stuff, pthreads mappings, malloc, etc) only libc :)
Best regards,
-Stephan
regards, aljen
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