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Development Update 8/04/2004... |
Faustus Marshal Palestar
Joined: May 29, 2001 Posts: 2748 From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2004-08-04 09:48  
Howdy,
We just moved to a new house this last weekend, so I'm still without internet access at home until later today. Resourcer/Source Control access should be back up by tonight for all the devs.
Anyway, good news... I tried out GNU lib called "DLMALLOC", which is a replacment memory allocator. Under testing, this brought CPU usage down from 50% to 15% running the same code, but with this different memory allocator. Obviously, this will help the server/client code run much faster than before, which in turn should reduce the lag.
I've started implementing/compiling Gideon's changes to the gadgets and ships. Beta should be updated sometime this week once I get everything compiling again.
-Richard
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Fattierob Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003 Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2004-08-04 10:05  
yay.
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Alien Mastermind Grand Admiral Pitch Black
Joined: January 20, 2003 Posts: 242 From: Toronto
| Posted: 2004-08-04 10:17  
w00t... this means we will actually be able to play the beta! Unlike now...
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Sorn Duskryn -{Shadewalker}- -VA- Cadet
Joined: March 31, 2002 Posts: 308 From: Near Reloads
| Posted: 2004-08-04 10:17  
youre the man!
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JackSwift Cadet Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: October 30, 2002 Posts: 1806 From: Where the Sun dont Shine (Seattle-ish)
| Posted: 2004-08-04 10:22  
So the UDP socket code is already ready for beta?
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_x$witchBladex_ [1.480 Fanboy] Grand Admiral
Joined: February 26, 2003 Posts: 849 From: Upstate New York
| Posted: 2004-08-04 10:51  
You are the man!
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Gideon Cadet
Joined: September 14, 2001 Posts: 4604 From: Oregon, USA
| Posted: 2004-08-04 11:02  
On a related note...
If it takes Faustus a while to get the stuff I did in to code, don't blame him.
Appearantly, I'm the master of making typos.
So this time, the blame for any delayes rests solely on my shoulders.
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Forseth (Ret) Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 01, 2003 Posts: 828 From: Forseth
| Posted: 2004-08-04 11:32  
well thnx for the update Faustus, and step it up a notch gid. we all know your better then that. were not paying you to look pretty
~Forseth-
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Webstar Cadet
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 110 From: Liverpool, England
| Posted: 2004-08-04 11:45  
whoo hoooooo its beta time
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Ceridan Cadet
Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 608 From: Canada
| Posted: 2004-08-04 12:14  
Yay another Dev Update.... so patch time is Soon?
oh and ill participate at the beta a bit
well later
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Hybok Vice Admiral
Joined: January 28, 2004 Posts: 121
| Posted: 2004-08-04 12:15  
yay test time now i have a reason to work on my beta rank
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Malarthi Cadet
Joined: March 17, 2004 Posts: 113
| Posted: 2004-08-04 14:03  
I'll be back for the release, and maybe the beta, but I'm sorta away for now...
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Meko Grand Admiral
Joined: March 03, 2004 Posts: 1956 From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2004-08-04 20:37  
hey hey gid..... evryone esle makes tuns of speeling erors!!! so dun worry about it.
=)
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Lux (Polaris) Fleet Admiral Raven Warriors
Joined: April 20, 2004 Posts: 835 From: Asgard
| Posted: 2004-08-04 20:41  
Beta..werd.
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Bobamelius Grand Admiral Galactic Navy
Joined: October 08, 2002 Posts: 2074 From: Ohio
| Posted: 2004-08-04 21:26  
Yay!!!
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