Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Avoided mail by re-building evolution master. Poked at
a mono uri parsing crasher, odd. Prodded other bugs; system
recovery's impact on boot performance etc.
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Horrified by another d-bus threading issue until I
noticed it was one more instance of not initializing the library
with threading enabled; why do we even need to do that ? with a
demand-launched I/O thread we can have it on all the time with
~no performance impact (like ORBit2).
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Plugged away at obscure mono problems on Atom; nurgh.
Looked after poxy babes while J. took the others swimming.
Dinner at desk, worked late - stayed up for a MeeGo meeting
that (on arrival) turned out to have moved; nice. Worked on
and on.
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Eventually, after a day of pouring over the code with
Paolo, Miguel, Rodrigo and Aaron, and however much hair lost:
Miguel located the cause of the apparent deep mono brokenness:
nothing to do with mono, just some genius 'optimisation' in
memcmp so it returns incorrect values in some corner cases.
Implemented and checked in a trivial memcmp replacement, and
went to bed.
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images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
