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- From: enewton@uucp (Eric Newton x2092)
- Subject: Re: InterViews
- Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!srg!enewton
- Organization: means "in a rut"
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:59:32
- Message-ID: <ENEWTON.92Aug12155932@vega.uucp>
- In-Reply-To: u906400@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au's message of Tue, 11 Aug 1992 09:39:26 GMT
- References: <u906400.713525966@franklin>
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- I've just completed porting InterViews to Linux and it appears to work.
- So who else is interested? You'll need 24Mb of swap + physical memory
- to compile the brute. It's actually quite interesting watching 16Mb
- of available memory slowly being removed.
-
- You only need that much memory to compile one file. If you don't need
- tiff support, you don't have to compile that file, and you don't need
- so much space.
-
- It is quite slow, however my video card is only an ET3000 and I'd be
- interested to find out how it runs with a quicker video card.
- The speed could also be due to my 386-33.
-
- The problem is that the coordinate space of InterViews is stored in
- floats. If you don't have an FPU, then InterViews is slow. I have
- rewritten the Coord typedef to be a class definition that implements
- fixed point numbers in a 32 bit integer. This has really made things
- faster. I will probably do the same thing for colors, since they are
- also defined as floats.
-
- All I have to do now is work out how to create shared libraries.
- Considering the Interviews library is 1.4Mb and the Unidraw library is
- 1.7Mb I wouldn't particularly like to have to statically link the
- programs if it is avoidable.
-
- This would be nice if you run several version of the programs at once,
- otherwise it isn't any worse than any other X windows programs.
-
- Remember to mail to: uunet.uu.net!srg!enewton "The more you complain,
- <or> enewton@oswego.oswego.edu the longer God lets you
- <or> newton@access.digex.com live."
-
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- Remember to mail to: uunet.uu.net!srg!enewton "The more you complain,
- <or> enewton@oswego.oswego.edu the longer God lets you
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