infoscape

This version includes no new features at all but a very streamlined internal design for feed handling. Now forget about the absurd memory usage and accept my apologies for overlookin such an important issue.

Enjoy!

Memory management is not an easy thing, that’s a fact. Some languages such as Java or C# have managed (”managed”, got it?) to put this question miles away from the programmer’s worries. But Objective-C still uses a rather complex set of mechanisms to handle the memory life cycle of objects (reference counting, auto-release pools, ownership conventions…).

Infoscape requires not only an intensive use of dynamic memory mechanisms but also a multi-threaded processing model. Memory management in Obj-C is complex enough by itself alone, but adding threads into the mix makes it extremely difficult to efficiently manage resources without wasting the power of the language itself.

Version 1.3 is on its way and it will offer dramatic improvements in this area. Sorry for these tenths of megabytes wasted so far.

This release fixes a couple minor bugs and one serious crash. See the release notes for more details: http://infoscape.cyberguijarro.com/update/relnotes.html

Hmmm, what to say… I’ve been collecting some feedback after the 1.0 launch and many of the issues reported where highly annoying but not so difficul to fix, so I decided to pull out a bugfix release polishing some of these. Check out the release notes for details.

If you already use version 1.0 and have the automatic update feature enabled, update process should be not much of a trouble, otherwise please visit the download page.