Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Up early, used prime hash table sizes instead of powers
of 2, interestingly no siginificant speed win - perhaps our hash is
too good.
- Continued profiling - the store code looks increasingly
suspicious as a source of inefficiency: 40% of OO.o's locking on
startup is done there. Knocked up a simple patch to cut that to 25%
hopefully Matthias can improve it yet further in his re-work.
- Nailed the irritating gnome-screensaver crash-on-start
problem; an underlying bug in XGetClassHint's error handling - worked
around it.
- Spent some time writing a report, status report, conf-call.
Dinner watched movie with babies, finished & sent my report.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
