On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:49:13AM -0400, thus said Garry R. Osgood: > <#10595 addenda snipped: see http://bugs.gnome.org/db/24/24188.html> > > For the (speculative) 1.2 release: > > 1. Do we support this option (and fix the bugs)? > > 2. or do we shut down option --with-mp=yes ? > > Leaving the situation as-is I regard unacceptable for 1.2 release. Those with multiple > CPU's will be naturally attracted to the switch, unlimiting the set of people affected > in short order. What's not functional should not be offered, so either a fix or an option > removal seems in order. I used this a while ago, since I got a dual cpu machine. It compiled and seemed to work ok, but I started to getting a lot of "Aiee! We lost a thread!" -messages that eventually caused a crash. It is not stable enough for daily use, thus I dont use it anymore. (just to let you know of how it presently works) Tuomas -- .---> tigert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx . |\,/| tigert@xxxxxxxx <-----. +----> www.helixcode.com - ()-@@ , tigert.gimp.org <----+ `-----> art director , `--')/ a gimp artist <---'
