[pmmail-list] Update from Peter Nielsen

[Paul Hodges]

I thought that this message from Peter on the pmview-beta list should
be copied here :-)

Paul Hodges
QBS Software Ltd

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 03:12:57 +0200 (EET), pnielsen@tuug.fi wrote:

>> I know this is not the place for PMMail related messages (BTW, it will
>> be great if you join the PMMail mailing list), but there's something I
>> have to say about this new beta. It seems to me that memory managament
>> on this new version is much better than the previous one. The ninth
>> beta was taking over 10 MB of memory whilst this new beta uses about 6
>> MB.
>
>:-) That's nice to hear. In this version I've started the tedious work of 
>rewriting the old 1980's C-style code that makes PMMail. I guess one of the 
>most obvious problems with the original Southsoft code is that it leaks 
>memory like nothing I have seen before. This is not strange considering the 
>coding style. A good and simple example: string handling is heavily based 
>on "strdup", often without "free", thus it eats memory all the time until 
>it has eaten up all your memory...
>
>The Southsoft guys knew how to make a real nice user interface, but 
>software design and robustness was definitely not their primary interest. 
>PMMail 3.0 will be something entirely different in this area. You can bet 
>on that! (Maybe I should be writing code for NASA?... ;-)
>
>FWIW, In this PMMail beta I've replaced about 10% of the original code (an 
>estimate). 
>
>Unfortunately I have to go back to focussing on BMT Micro's e-business now, 
>however, we hope that by July everything will be running smoothly in this 
>area and I will be able to get back to PMMail (and PMView) 100%! (Don't 
>worry, I will try to get some time to work on PMView and PMMail every once 
>in a while before that!)
>
>Best regards,
>Peter

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