I released a new version of WebNews, and I worked on the vmips manual. WebNews's speed problems have begun to get serious. I need to develop a benchmark for it so that I can start to do some serious performance tuning. I would be happy to hear suggestions, if anyone out there has any experience benchmarking CGI scripts.
I benchmarked GCC 3.0 prerelease against its predecessors 2.91.66 and 2.95.2 using the Stepanov Abstraction Penalty Benchmark, and the results made me pretty unhappy. I hope it gets better, because some of my code has performance problems that seem to track the slowdown on this benchmark pretty well. At least I can assume that it will get better, because good performance on this benchmark is one of the release criteria for 3.0.
I have begun developing an XML-based procmailrc generator with a web-based editor, for use in secure IMAP server installations.
My lone experience with the SourceForge support system resulted in approximately one month turn-around time for my bug report. (Happily, once someone got to looking at it, they immediately did the right thing, so I can't exactly say I'm disappointed, but neither can I say that I am pleasantly surprised.)
One thing I've been noticing lately about C++ is that you really have to have a recent compiler to get support for anything resembling the standard.