Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Poked at misc builds. Fixed HEAD build snafu; fix took seconds, waiting for IZ to respond (before committing to ooo-build) took minutes. Manage to hose my NLD machine by force installing a glibc package; interesting, with -U --replacepkgs --oldpackage it then worked fine.

Team meeting, wrote up / sent action items. Finally managed to measure the -Bdirect performance improvement on an OO.o warm start (times in ms):

Old glibc:       3968, 3978, 3983 Avg: 3980
Just new glibc:  4224, 4238, 4250 Avg: 4240 [260ms slower - hmm]
many -Bdirected: 2378, 2387, 2389 Avg: 2385 [1600ms faster - 40%]

That of course is all happening in the relocation processing - so when we look at a cumulative time taken in dlopen it becomes more obvious (times in secs):
```
before: 2.693, 2.721, 2.714 Avg: 2.709
after:  0.970, 0.968, 0.956 Avg: 0.965 [65% faster]
```
But of course that's an under-estimate, since not everything is dlopened (and not everything is -Bdirect linked). Posted my patches internally for flameage.
Fixed a keybinding bug in calc of my own creation.
Whole family woken in the night (3-5am) by someone end-user wanting help with his Toshiba laptops' sound support (using SUSE 9.1); urgh.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2005-10-25: Tuesday