Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:49:41 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/png Makefile ports/graphics/png/files patch-pnggccrd.c Message-ID: <20011116004941.A50186@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <200111152332.fAFNWbZ89109@freefall.freebsd.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 15:32:37 -0800 References: <200111152332.fAFNWbZ89109@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 2001.11.15 15:32 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > sobomax 2001/11/15 15:32:37 PST > > Modified files: > graphics/png Makefile > Added files: > graphics/png/files patch-pnggccrd.c > Log: > Once we are determined that CPUID instruction is or isn't supported > resfore > initial state of the bit 21 of the eflag register. This reduces > possibility > that the threaded program linked with libpng will die due to arrival > of the > signal during probing for the CPU type. More proper fix has been > committed > into the -current kernel and will be MFC'ed soon, but this > workaround is > necessary for those with older systems. > > Among other things, this should make Nautilus, Balsa and other > multi-threaded > GNOME programs more stable, therefore update is recommended to all > existing > users. > > Bump PORTREVISION. > > Reported by: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > Revision Changes Path > 1.45 +2 -1 ports/graphics/png/Makefile > 1.1 +14 -0 ports/graphics/png/files/patch-pnggccrd.c (new) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message > The performance difference is HUGE! GNOME is considerably more responsive, as is Nautilus and all the other GNOME ports. Thanks! -- jmc || MacroHard -- \ || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | || design . . . | =======================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =======================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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