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[Ralf Treinen <address@hidden>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:15:37PM -0400, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:

> I also must say that I've been forced to change temporarily from Debian
> (testing) to Red Hat 9 and that I found TeXmacs MUCH more responsive (a
> real pleasure to use in writing) under RedHat. The other changes, apart
> from the distribution, is that under Debian-fluxbox I used a
> self-compiled .1.21 version and under RedHat-gnome I got the .1.23 rpm
> (now .1.24 seems to behave equally well). So either an optimization has
> gone unnoticed between the two versions or there's something doable to
> speed TeXmacs  up under Debian (can you think of something Ralf?). The
> increased responsiveness is really noticeable in more-than-6-line
> paragraphs.

For the debian package I had to switch off optimization since
there was a bug in gcc which seems to be resolved now. The
debian package will be optimized from the next release on. I don't
know when the redhat package had optimization back on but it
might have been quite recently.

-Ralf.
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