On Saturday 12 March 2005 1:38 pm, Duncan wrote:
Brad Sims posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below, on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:06:43 -0600:
> Latest CVS built 3/11/2005 hasn't given me any problems so far; my issues
> of not queueing and not ending tasks seems to be fixed...
>
> Minor issue: Help, about gives the version as 0.14.90... Shouldn't that
> read 0.14.91 or 0.14.92?
No. As Artur hinted at but didn't quite say, 0.14.9x is the beta series
for 0.15.0, with 0.14.90 being the first beta in that series, which is CVS
HEAD at this point.
Ahh, ok. That makes sense now... I shall rename my debs accordingly then <g>
> One niggle before I end this screed <G>... It seems that Pan CVS downloads
> headers at about 1channel @170K, but when I download something it gives me
> 4 channels @ 300+K, I wonder if that is on Giganews' side or if it is
> something Pan is doing
That's probably because it's doing more processing while it's downloading
overviews (incorrectly known as headers, incorrect, because it's only
/selected/ headers, those in the "overview") now, instead of waiting until
it's finished downloading. See the other threads for the details, but it's
doing part of the multi-part binary sorting and similar stuff earlier now,
saving on memory usage so it doesn't choke on a couple million overviews
in a group like it used to, even with a gig of memory.
Sweet, I can put up with the slower header download for the vastly faster
header sort and reduced memory consumption <g>.
Even with the increased processing on overviews, I find that its still about
70-100% faster to display.
I must say that the changes are welcome... Good job.