Early in the Qt 5 development cycle, we had made the decision to deprecate QPointer and replace it with the more modern QWeakPointer. That decision is now reversed, so please continue using QPointer where you were using them. Moreover, don’t use QWeakPointer except in conjunction with QSharedPointer. To understand the reason behind this back and …
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Jun 13
AVX-optimised raster painting for Windows too
Yesterday, one of my contributions to Qt was merged which finally adds better support for optimised raster painting on Windows, with SSE2 and AVX instructions. This feature has long been present on the Unix systems, but it was somewhat lacking on Windows. If you’ve read my past blogs, you know I often talk about and …
May 11
Source code must be UTF-8 and QString wants it
I’ve talked about source code encoding in the past, arguing that the C++ language lacks a fundamental setting. However, since this Monday, Qt 5 now starts to enforce that source code must be UTF-8. In a way. The commit that landed on the qtbase repository finally changed the codec used by QString’s 8-bit methods to …
Apr 27
Qt Project Statistics
For about a month, I’ve been improving a set of scirpts to calculate statistics on the Qt Project. What I wanted to know, at first, was how well I was doing, how much I was contributing. Another question I had in mind and I know many others did too was “how much is the Qt …
Apr 03
Qt 5 alpha released
Lars writes to let us know that the first (and hopefully only) Qt 5 alpha has been released! It’s the first in the major release series in 7 years, the first major release of the Qt Project (though not the first release in of the project, since we released 4.8.1 just a few weeks ago). …
Feb 22
The value of passing by value
I’ve written in the past about how passing certain types by value in C++ would be more efficient than passing by constant reference. But it turns out that the ABI rules are somewhat more complex than what I said back in 2008. Time to investigate. This is also prompted by the discussion on qreal on …
Jan 13
Qt temperatures drop from January to June
I’ve previously talked about how the Qt 5 Winter is coming. Since we started talking about that, people have begun asking what are the date limits for each thing, when the API would freeze, when Qt 5.0 would be stable, when we’d release, etc. This blog tries to answer that a little. Last month, we …
Dec 22
Winter is coming
Winter is also coming for Qt 5.0: we are approaching feature freeze. The exact date, I can’t tell you, because we don’t know yet. That’s actually the subject of this blog: we need to find a date and I need your help to get there.
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My Gitorious activity
- thiago-intel pushed 534 commits to ~thiago-intel/qt/thiago-intels-qtbase:master. View diff May 11, 2012 16:28 UTC
- thiago-intel pushed 910 commits to ~thiago-intel/qt/thiago-intels-qtbase:master. View diff April 21, 2012 09:37 UTC
- thiago-intel created branch simd-update on qt/thiago-intels-qtbase April 21, 2012 09:37 UTC
- thiago-intel pushed 8 commits to ~thiago-intel/qt/thiago-intels-qtbase:api_changes. View diff March 30, 2012 12:59 UTC
- thiago-intel deleted branch new-qurl on qt/thiago-intels-qtbase March 30, 2012 12:59 UTC