[Xastir] recent cvs: Works good...

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Curt, while driving to Dallas yesterday, I did a CVS update and 
recompile and ran the (1600Z) latest version the rest of the day. 
Couple of points...

1.  Apparently you've solved the problems associated with the latest 
round of ImageMagick API fubars.  Works good now.  I've, once again, got 
radar, Tiger, etc.

2.  I saw no issue with excessive CPU utilization including when radar 
or Tiger loads were ongoing.  That said,...

3.  When radar or Tiger are loading, the program appears to steal a lot 
of normal cycles and doesn't appear to service interrupts much at all. 
For instance, if I were to try to try to click on one of the menu 
elements, it may take minutes to be recognized, where, in a map 
update/redraw, it's almost instantaneous.  This becomes important when 
one has an 80k link to the outside world, and radar's getting snagged 
all the time.  Seems that, if we're now thread-aware, that could wander 
off to another thread, or there might be a way to at least look at 
clicks/interrupts a little more frequently.

3a.  Even while I couldn't get the program's attention during all of 
this to make changes or get ahead of it, a toggle to a running 'top' 
demonstrated no excessive CPU usage or high load averages.

Thanks!  Nice work to all the developers on another successful major 
release!

73, gerry
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