On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 02:56:39PM -0500, Livio Soares wrote:
Hi Günter,
G. Milde writes:
Dear developers,
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What could I do to turn off (or limit) the internal cache?
No, not in "vanilla" Dillo.
Was the cache_size option in the debian package an unofficial patch? I would really like to see this patch in the mainstream, as I am short on RAM here...
Yes, this is an unofficial patch. I wrote that patch in 2002-2003. Since then, my life turned upside down a few times. Right now, I'm just focusing on avoiding heart attacks from overworking ;-)
Regardless, there are two relevant posts about the subject:
The message explaining the internals of the patch: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1642897
The lastest version of the patch: http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/pipermail/dillo-dev/2003-January/000073.html
I think it last applied cleanly to Dillo 0.7.0 (from early 2003). Of course, I expect it to not apply cleanly at all today. However, the good part is that the entire patch was only less than 150 lines of code; it probably would take someone just a few days to reintegrate it.
If anyone wants to grab this patch and update it, before you do, please make sure with Jorge if he is interested. Although _I_ feel that this patch is extremely important to Dillo, I have no idea why Jorge didn't integrate it in the first place, at the time (although, I have a hunch he was too busy, and this was not so high in his priority list...).
Hi Livio! Good to see you can respond even at peak work levels! :-) You're right on both things, it _is_ very important, and I did not have the time... Unfortunately this is not rare because I have much more work than I can handle so only the top priorities get a time slice. For instance, now, the official CVS is frozen because Sebastian and I are working with exclusive dedication to the port to FLTK. As soon as we get an interesting prototype, we'll upload the source tree so everyone can play and help with it. Of course, if there's a person with high knowledge on Dillo internals and enough time to review/integrate/QA the patches, I'm more than willing to hear from him! BTW, Livio was my perfect candidate, but he has no time now... -- Cheers Jorge.-