XTdb Release 3.6.2 might be repost

[James Sentman]

Hello Folks,

A while back I uploaded a new release of XTdb to the server and began updating all the documentation for XTdb which had languished a bit. In my memory I was waiting to do an official release notice until I had made sure that the memory leaks I was tracking during the last few betas were really fixed. I can now admit that they actually are ;) There was a problem if you were viewing or saving a graph that had units that were updating very quickly, the memory was just never released as it never stopped spinning to render them. I fixed this by forcing the auto-release pool to manually release. Which makes it less of an auto-release and more of a manual release then doesn’t it? We can debate the various pros and cons of garbage collection vs reference counting at a later date but reference counting would have rendered the graphs about 2 microseconds slower but would not have caused me a weeks work running memory leak detection tools against the software, so you can guess which I would choose (and which XTension uses in the background to keep such things from happening!)

In any case This latest version from a while back is on the wiki here along with documentation that I think covers about everything the app does including some very detailed under the hood descriptions of the file formats and other things that may be of interest or use to some of you interested in migrating or moving large amounts of data or such things.

https://www.machomeautomation.com/doku.php/xtdb/download


Thanks,
 James


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