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perl -pi.bak
re-wrote everything to use the wonderful web archive.
But it came up with a change (complete with comment) that was:1. Avoid Unnecessary Dynamic Memory Allocation:
Not ideal. I was hoping for some clever idea around something new VPCONFLICTD or better some shifts and VPCMPD or somesuch to perhaps make performance better. At least it gave some good factual lookup answers like a prettier technical search engine.- uint32_t scratch[width]; + uint32_t *scratch = new uint32_t[width]; // Allocate on the stack
"The generally accepted position that these free rebuilds are just funnels churning out RHEL experts and turning into sales just isn't reality. I wish we lived in that world, but it's not how it actually plays out".
"Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere. This is a real threat to open source, and one that has the potential to revert open source back into a hobbyist- and hackers-only activity."simultaneously seems contrived. Surely that is what Linux Distros do: they dis-intermediate FLOSS projects - but it is perhaps also an opportunity, let me explain:
For anyone that doesn't know him - Caolán has contributed amazing work on the LibreOffice code-base for over two decades, latterly for RedHat. He has pioneered work in many areas around LibreOffice:
We expect Caolán will continue to spend time on these as part of his role at Collabora; but of course this is only a subset of the things he has contributed for RedHat some highlights being:
RedHat was instrumental in founding The Document Foundation, and has invested far more than we had any right to expect through its team over a long period; they deserve our thanks. I expect that LibreOffice will still be available from flathub going forward. However with RedHat now choosing to laser focus its development investment into the open hybrid cloud, it became clear that in order for us to continue to enjoy Caolán's contribution - he would need a new home.
Happily - this circumstance is rather similar to the history of Collabora Productivity's founding with the direction changes at SUSE, and we could act quickly. The paid and volunteer team around the code-base continues to grow. However, it is is important that we retain skills, and continue to deepen the talent pool around LibreOffice Technology and Collabora Online as circumstances change.
The Collabora team is looking forward to working with Caolán to continue his work in three areas: on the underlying LibreOffice Technology, serving our customers as part of our growing (we're hiring) team, and of course to make Collabora Online even better for our partners and customers. Welcome Caolán!
perf report
on the
server - out of memory; discovered perf archive
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nice! but no good docs on how to effectively use it with
perf report
or hotspot
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