Re:I think the fix he made was in the Quake source
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Answer from the perspective of someone working on the project: Actually both of you are correct. John Changed something in both places. He submitted a few patches to fix bugs in the GLX driver (The main one being that our texture manager was broken and using a MRU decision to throw a texture out, not the correct LRU). From what his plan says he also made a change within the quake 3 source to fix an incorrect assumption.
For those non programmer types: MRU and LRU are most recently used and least recently used respectively.
He is a nice addition to the project b/c he brings many years of experience that most if not all of the developer's can't match. Even though our code is doing well and maturing fast, I think a few of these bugs would have gone unfound for prolly at least 2-4 wks more then with him looking at the source.
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Answer from the perspective of someone working on the project:
Actually both of you are correct. John Changed something in both places. He submitted a few patches to fix bugs in the GLX driver (The main one being that our texture manager was broken and using a MRU decision to throw a texture out, not the correct LRU). From what his plan says he also made a change within the quake 3 source to fix an incorrect assumption.
For those non programmer types: MRU and LRU are most recently used and least recently used respectively.
He is a nice addition to the project b/c he brings many years of experience that most if not all of the developer's can't match. Even though our code is doing well and maturing fast, I think a few of these bugs would have gone unfound for prolly at least 2-4 wks more then with him looking at the source.
-Jeff