Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:49:41 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/png Makefile ports/graphics/png/files patch-pnggccrd.c Message-ID: <20011116004941.A50186@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <200111152332.fAFNWbZ89109@freefall.freebsd.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 15:32:37 -0800 References: <200111152332.fAFNWbZ89109@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 2001.11.15 15:32 Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> sobomax 2001/11/15 15:32:37 PST
>
> Modified files:
> graphics/png Makefile
> Added files:
> graphics/png/files patch-pnggccrd.c
> Log:
> Once we are determined that CPUID instruction is or isn't supported
> resfore
> initial state of the bit 21 of the eflag register. This reduces
> possibility
> that the threaded program linked with libpng will die due to arrival
> of the
> signal during probing for the CPU type. More proper fix has been
> committed
> into the -current kernel and will be MFC'ed soon, but this
> workaround is
> necessary for those with older systems.
>
> Among other things, this should make Nautilus, Balsa and other
> multi-threaded
> GNOME programs more stable, therefore update is recommended to all
> existing
> users.
>
> Bump PORTREVISION.
>
> Reported by: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.45 +2 -1 ports/graphics/png/Makefile
> 1.1 +14 -0 ports/graphics/png/files/patch-pnggccrd.c (new)
>
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The performance difference is HUGE! GNOME is considerably more
responsive, as is Nautilus and all the other GNOME ports.
Thanks!
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