So, what is the plan to get multi-core rendering working on Windows? ~Roger
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Fraser Gordon <fraserjgor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear List Members. > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7 RC 2. > > Release Focus > 33 bug fixes > > Known issues > Multicore rendering disabled in Windows due to multimedia not being > thread-safe > > Release contents > The number of bugs fixed is so large that it no longer makes sense to > include a summary in the release email. Instead, please look at the bug fix > section of the release notes which can be found here: > > http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_7_0/LiveCodeNotes-6_7_0_rc_2.pdf > > Multicore Rendering > We've updated the way LiveCode renders on all platforms. It now splits > your stack up into as many section as there are CPU cores. Each core > renders portion of your stack which in theory improves rendering > performance by the number of core available. In practice this isn't the > case as there are overheads associated with this approach. The performance > improvements will be felt in fairly specific circumstances at the moment as > there are a number limitations in the engine we're still trying to remove. > However, as this is the final feature to go into LiveCode 6.7 we felt it > important to get it into testing early. > > We've seen a number of glitches on Retina Mac but we would appreciate your > help in identifying the edge cases on other platforms. It is also possible > that some instability will have been introduced. LiveCode was not written > with multicore processing in mind so we have been updating the engine where > necessary to be "thread-safe". If you app crashes please try and reproduce > the crash and report it to us as it will lead us to the parts of the engine > that need a similar update. We think we've caught the majority but once > again, there may be some edge cases that your project exercises that our > test system does not cover. > > In the next few builds as we mature the feature we'll release a few simple > sample stack that exercise the cores available on your machine. > > Getting this release > http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ > > Feeding Back > Please report any issues at quality.runrev.com. Where possible, please > check the list of outstanding bugs at the link above to ensure you are not > duplicating a report. Having said that, our team is here to help so we’ll > mark duplicate bugs as they come in. > > Warm regards, > > The LiveCode Team > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
