Re: [WebMacro-user] ANNOUNCE: WebMacro 2.0b1 has been released

[Brian G. <br...@qu...>]

>As far as I can see you have broken WebMacro at
>a time when the userbase is very small.

This is a bogus argument -- it becomes increasingly harder to undo bad 
decisions as the user base gets larger.

>You have not 'removed the shit' you have changed the API and
>broken everything.

The FastWriter abstraction was a totally broken abstraction which should 
never have been exposed as part of the interface, being neither faster nor 
useful.  The new interface does everything you could do with FastWriter 
before, but in terms of template functionality, not stream internals.

A number of other broken optimizations were removed, such as all the 
attempts at manual garbage collection (requiring every object to be 
explicitly 'destroy'ed) and pooling which probably would have hurt 
performance, not helped it.

Sorry you are frustrated -- perhaps more doc is needed -- but overall this 
seems a huge improvement.


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