Well, I suspect there's a judgement call involved in whether bug 244867 is fixed or not. If any performance slower than 3.1.6 is going to be viewed as unacceptable, then no, it's not fixed yet. However, 3.2.0b6 does fix the biggest source of bad performance in 3.2.0b5, i.e. the repeated calls to regcomp(). The overall performance will of course vary considerably from machine to machine and configuration to configuration, but now we're getting performance that's in the ballpark of 1.5 to 4 times the runtime of 3.1.6, as opposed to the 4 to 50 times slower we were often seeing before. So, while there's still a lot of room for improvement in performance, I don't think we'll get nearly as many complaints about it as we have in the past.
I think all we can do is leave it to the debian powers that be to make that judgement call for themselves, and decide whether 3.2.0b6 is acceptable as a stable release, rather than an experimental one. According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Thanks, Robert. > > The latest beta doesn't solve bug 244867, but nor will 3.2.0-release. It > was decided at the recent committee meeting that we will postpone the optimisation > until 3.2.1 (unless we stumble across any particular bug causing the problem). > > I'd strongly suggest that Sarge ship with packages for both versions, to > allow users who need features in 3.2 to use them, while allowing those who > need speed to have it. Would that be possible? > > Cheers, > Lachlan > > >I have first tentatively built a debian package of htdig 3.2.0b6 > > > >Available here: > > > >http://users.linuxbourg.ch/ribnitz/debian/htdig_3.2.0b6-1_i386.deb > > > >It should solve quite a few problems, please do test, those of you who > >are on debian.. > > > >I am usure however, whether it solves the following problem: > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244867 > > > >Once I have a confirmation that it works better than the previuous one, > > >I'll start closing bugs. > > > >Robert -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
