[M3devel] Release notes comments

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.m.bates at cox.net>:

> A couple of comments on the release notes for 5.8.2:     <li>System
> pthread threading is now the default on all
>      platforms. The original (fast) M3 user level thread code is
>      still there and can be used if necessary (on most platforms). On
>      many systems, this allows M3 applications to scale over all
>      available hardware processors.</li>
>
> This sounds like it is the original user level threads that allow
> scaling over multiple processors, which I believe is backwards.  I
> suggest swapping the second and third sentences be for clarity.
> <li>New data type LONGINT (64 bit integer) on all target
>      platforms except Windows (still in the queue).</li>
>
> As I understand it, LONGINT is in Windows too, it just isn't 64
> bits yet.

Thanks Rodney, that was fast. After browsing the change logs for several
hours, I just checked in that draft last night before falling asleep.

I'd like everybody to have a look at them and correct, extend or add
topics they'd like to change or see. Probably I've missed at least some.
Order should also be considered.

You can browse them at http://www.opencm3.net/releng/relnotes-5.8-RC2.html
now if you don't want to read them in your CVS workspace.

Let me know what you think and feel free to improve the checked-in source,

Olaf
-- 
Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
                Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany
phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96  mobile: +49 177 2345 869  fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95
    http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin
Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194