speed improvements

Pieter Omvlee is proud to announce DrawIt 3.6, the latest version of his easy-to-use, powerful, layer-based, vector-drawing application for Mac OS X.

DrawIt is unique in that it presents the user with a simple ...

Work has started on making repeat builds bit-identical. So far this has involved removing code which embeds build dates into the binaries.

[Perry E. Metzger]

UDF: Implement directory hashing to speed up directory traversals. Speed improvements of at least 4 times in untarring and roughly 100 to 500 times on file creation in big directories.

[Reinoud Zandijk]

While openpam overwrites possible sensitive data on cleanup, it misses the buffers used in the password dialog.

Clean them too.[Matthias Drochner]

Work has started on making repeat builds bit-identical. So far this has involved removing code which embeds build dates into the binaries.

[Perry E. Metzger]

UDF: Implement directory hashing to speed up directory traversals. Speed improvements of at least 4 times in untarring and roughly 100 to 500 times on file creation in big directories.

[Reinoud Zandijk]

While openpam overwrites possible sensitive data on cleanup, it misses the buffers used in the password dialog.

Clean them too.[Matthias Drochner]

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The last stable version of Wesnoth is 1.4.3, a maintenance release for the 1.4.x branch. This new branch features great improvements over the older stable, 1.2.8, like a whole bunch of new graphics, speed improvements, UI redesign to be more easier and intuitive, transparency effects, and many other.

Epidemic GNU/Linux is an easy-to-use, Debian-based desktop distribution created in Brazil. An updated version 2.1 was announced yesterday.

With this release, the project's developers focused primarily on bug fixes, stability and speed improvements, and general polish.

Some the improvements include: Easy Channel, a graphical utility for installing proprietary....

Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology..."

New Mac proto theme, better OS integration on Linux and Mac, major speed improvements, memory usage reduction, integrated search of addons, and thousands more changes."Firefox 3 Beta 3 includes approximately 1300 individual changes from the previous beta..."