On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, [ISO-8859-2] Branko Čibej wrote:
> Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 13:11, Branko Čibej wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The result is that the combiner would have to
> >>handle overlapping delta windows, which is definitely more than I'd want
> >>to do for Alpha -- it is, in fact, a slightly huge amount of work.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm not sure I understand what's difficult about handling overlapping
> >source windows. What benefit do you gain from assuming they don't
> >overlap?
> >
> It makes the delta combiner waaay simpler if I can assume that, when
> combining two windows A and B, the length of the target view produced by
> A is the same as the length of the source view expected by B, and that
> A's target view starts at B'a source view offset.
>
> Otherwise, I'd have to concatenate windows in the combiner, etc. Doable,
> but moch more work. I actually plan to do it, but there's no way it
> could be finished for Alpha, therefore not before 1.0.
>
>
> >> * apply Daniel Berlin's patch
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I've been kind of wondering what happened to this work. The message you
> >cited says "There are still a few things I need to do before I'd like to
> >see this officially reviewed," so I assumed got to the 98% mark and
> >stalled there.
> >
> Well, he didn't get it officially reviewed, which is our (my) fault,
> really. I looked at it again now, and it looks very nice indeed. I think
> it should go in.
>
The main thing I was waiting for was confirmation that the range coder
didn't violate any patents, as far as everyone was concerned.
I have this confirmation now, actually.
I got embroiled in working on gcc's 3.1 release, so my subversion work
got shoved to the back burner.
Then I moved from Boston to Maryland for the summer.
You know, life getting in the way of subversion hacking.
It's worse though, since I lost the hard disk i was keeping subversion on
during the move.
Summer law clerking is also keeping me very busy.
So it might be easier for someone else to pick it up and run with it if
they want it done in the next month or two.
But I still exist, and am around for questions.
And I *will* get to it eventually, just not anytime soon.
>
>
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Received on Tue Jun 18 14:26:00 2002