Vacuum teaser

Vacuum in action

On google chat with Vacuum-1.1.1 :)

Looks nice.

Nice! Is that using libQtWebkit?

@Chris

Yes :)

@alfkil

How's the speed as part of another app? I'm guessing far better than as part of Qt-Demo-Browser?

@chris

Pretty good, not fantastic, but given the circumstances pretty good. Of course it takes forever to start up because of the large shared objects that have to be loaded (also vacuum comes with about 60 plugins), but after that it is ok.
And by the way: There is a smaller Qt webkit browser example called "fancybrowser", and if you run it and turn off javascript, it is not that slow actually :).

@alfkil
How long is forever? :) Maybe disable some plugins?

forever=1 minute + 6 seconds here on sam-flex

hmmm will be interesting to see if i can get under 1 minute mark. Tried Vacuum on my win7 computer and its really nice.

Sorry, I cannot really change anything about the loading speed, since I am not in charge of the elf loader ;). The only thing I can do is to strip the binaries of any debug info, but I doubt that that is going to change much, because the stabs info is not loaded when linking dynamically.

Looks nice :) Wonder how long it takes on x1000

Cool! A native IM app is welcome for sure!

At least we need a native Skype Text+File-Transfer-Client for AmigaOS to replace the non functional SabreMSN to stay in touch with out contacts.

Who said Skype replaces MSN? Ah, Microsoft. Of course.

Seriously, Skype is p2p technology, so it'd be *some* work even if we ignore the fact that it's (still) completely closed/proprietary, both source and protocol.

@alfkil

Quote:

I just read something on the lightspark blog that might help speed up loading. It turns out that the standard GNU linker leaves in hundreds of unnecessary dynamic links for C++ code. This adds huge overhead at link time, all of which is a waste of time. The new gold linker does a good job of removing the unnecessary ones. I don't know if the AmigaOS SDK includes the gold linker or if you're already using it, but it's worth a look.

The original blog post can be found at: http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/?p=791

Hans

How's the progress alfkil?

@spotUP

Ok, I have seriously been overlooking posts on this forum. I have been busy with music and toying with my new X1000 (soooo cool, you cannot imagine...), but now I am back in the game. Have fixed a few things with regards to libQtWebkit (actually mostly issues with libQtGui and QtNetwork), and I should be ready for release pretty soon. I have already shipped some beta-archives, so I hope to get some nifty feedback :).

When the Qt demo browser is ready, I will finish the vacuum port, and then MuseScore, and then a few other things... man there is going to be a feast on os4depot ;)

Sounds like you've got your priorities straight! Looking forward to the merch! ;)

Where can I find Vacuum?

@sicky

You can't (yet), unless you want to try the Windoze/Mac version:

http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Vacuum-IM?content=119269