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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2011-11-13 16:40:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2011-11-13 16:40:38 +0100 |
| commit | 16ec078d05acade44772e46b73410c0343282832 (patch) | |
| tree | 49e6d50a7b3cb5674a38851c521678e105b4fcce /contributing | |
| parent | 0ac010fa2fedc1e4afd2d463436f0fabe7f2f3ff (diff) | |
news: q3: fixed links and zalloc→zone allocator
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| -rw-r--r-- | contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn index e5451119..3b540495 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ the GNU Hacker Meeting (GHM). Since the videos and slides from the GNU Hacker Meeting 2011 in Paris are [online](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/), now, we hope you enjoy his talk on -[GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv) +[GNU/Hurd, aka. Extensibility from the Ground (video)](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv) ([slides](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/samuel-thibault-hurd.pdf)). He explains nicely how the simple concept of translators gives power to non-priviledged and casual users (once we get some of these :) ) @@ -67,23 +67,23 @@ compare to Linux containers. On the technical side, Thomas Schwinge improved the technical documentation of the [[hurd/io_path]] in translators to make it easier for new developers to start hacking and Guillem Jover, Fridolin Pokorny and Jonathan Neuschäfer -[sent](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00184.html) -[many](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00093.html) -[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00030.html) for +[sent](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00184.html) +[many](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00093.html) +[patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-08/msg00030.html) for GNU Mach, improving stability, fixing memory leaks and cleaning up code. -Additionally Maksym Planeta replaced GNU Mach’s old zalloc memory -allocator with the new balloc from Richard Braun +Additionally Maksym Planeta replaced GNU Mach’s old zone memory +allocator with the new slab allocator from Richard Braun ([integration commit](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/gnumach.git/commit/?id=50d073c5ef0feb1676606d0068abf626e8297cd7)), -which handles slabs and should waste less memory than zalloc. Also -balloc has a cpu cache level, so it should work faster on SMP systems, -once we get up do date SMP CPU drivers for GNU Mach. +which should waste less memory than the zone allocator. Also it has a +cpu cache level, so it should work faster on SMP systems, once we get +up do date SMP CPU drivers for GNU Mach. It is now being integrted. And last but definitely not least, Jeremie Koenig finished his Google Summer of Code project to [Improve Java on Hurd](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/jkoenig/java.html). He -[improved the Hurd signalling](http://lists.gnu.org/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html), +[improved the Hurd signalling](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-06/msg00073.html), ported OpenJDK and created a [Java Hurd-Library](https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/hurd-java) which already allows writing a |