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On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 00:11, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > alexl@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > I was wondering whether there were plans to release new versions of > > libxml2 and libxslt. The versions that are part of Cygnus now are all > > rather old (by almost a year in the case of libxslt). > > ... > I'm sure Robert's aware of this, but he's got enough to do > without having to update these. They work quite fine at > their current version, so I'll let him decide when it is > appopriate to update. I hope to do a update-and-test run shortly. Updating these packages tends to be a little painful, or I'd do it more often :}. > Another issue is that the python binding requires some > reworking in 2.5.1, because it currently contains some > relocation issues which prevent it from properly linking. > This could also be fixed with a newer ld, which supports > pseudo relocations. Ah. Well, I don't use python - I'm happy to roll patches into the builds, but have no innate interest in troubleshooting the issues. I'll get a beta together in the near future, and let a python user fiddle :]. > On a side note, I think it might be worth noting that > turning pthreads "on" works quite well. It passes the test > suite and I've noticed no side-effects other then a possible > performance increase. If and when you do get around to > updating the packages robert, perhaps you might considier > turning them on. I'll be happy to. BTW: In the current versions, the threads interface was still beta. It should be *no* faster, as all it allows is MIMD, not MISD - that is parallel processing of multiple documents, not multiple cpu processing of a single document. Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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