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From: gabe@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Gabe Begeddov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: plea for public patch to Xt/TMstate.c
Message-ID: <110630023@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 22:05:20 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.161255.5803@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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   / hpcvlx:comp.windows.x.motif / kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) /  9:12 am  Oct 24, 1990 /
   A couple of weeks ago, someone (sorry, due to lack of disk space, we
   expire all articles in seven days or less, so I can't recall who) posted 
   an article acknowledging a "consortium internal" fix to TMstate.c in Xt, 
   that dramatically improved the performance of Xt in general and Motif 
   1.1 in particular.  (How's that for a run-on sentance?)

We provided a rather extensive rewrite of the entire translation manager to 
MIT and OSF. This was our snapshot at the time. We have since made quite a few
bug fixes which we will also be providing to MIT and OSF. One of the many 
areas of performance related changes that we made had a significant impact on
the interactive performance of the text widget. Due to pressure from various 
sources we decoupled that one change and made it available as a diff to the 
current MIT public source pool. The diffs for this specific change were to 
TranslateI.h and TMstate.c
   
   1st question:  Would that person, please send me the patch?  Much obliged,
   I'll buy you a beer/wine/whatever when you're in the area.  Take you on
   a personal guided tour of the Lab even.

Management's preference is that we don't send it directly but allow MIT/OSF
to be the intermediaries.

   2nd question:  MIT, please release this as a public fix?  If R5 is truely
   eight plus months away, that's a long time to wait for this much needed fix.
   
My impression is that MIT is planning to sit on the changes until they feel
comfortable with them and have modified them to their preferences. While we
made the specific change for interactive text widget performance separately
available it is our preference that the entire suite of translation 
manager changes be used. This makes sense since that is what our software
is based on.

I talked with Vania Joloboff at OSF today and he said that he had made that
specific interactive processing change available to MIT so that's where 
things stand at the moment. 

   Thanks.
   
   -- 
   Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
   kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov
   
   causing trouble again.
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Gabe Beged-Dov
Interface Technology Operation
Hewlett Packard