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From: rusty@garnet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: PURDUE+ speedup patches
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Date: 15 Dec 88 05:52:53 GMT
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In article <14671@lll-winken.llnl.gov> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
>Wanting to get some serious response speed out of X11R3, I fetched the
>PURDUE speedups and the PURDUE+ speedups from expo.lcs.mit.edu.  These
>patch files are causing quite a few .rej files with patch.  The PURDUE
>speedups caused one .rej file which I managed to get by on with some
>brace format changes to the pattern it was looking for, the PURDUE+ speedups
>are so full of rejected patches that I don't dare fix them all by hand.
>
>What happened here?  Is anyone else getting nailed heavily by the PURDUE+
>speedup patch kit? If the patch files are bad, could some kind soul place
>useful patch files for the PURDUE+ speedups on expo?

I also had a lot of problems with one of the patch files in the Purdue
speedups.  Even after several messages between me and Spaf and I never
managed to convince him that the patch was malformed.  I also resorted
to fixing the patch file to get it to work.  The Purdue+ patches also
generated a lot of .rej files but fortunately with them I was able to
make them all work by using the -l (loose match) flag.  (The compile is
underway so I don't know if they really work.)

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	rusty c. wright
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