Re: version 0.20 of ths Sharp backend available

Milon Firikis (milonf@ariadne-t.gr)
Tue, 25 May 1999 21:21:43 +0300

abel deuring wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Kazuya and I finished version 0.20 of the Sharp backend.
>
> The major changes to version 0.15 are:
>
> - better detection of JX-330 series scanners: The models
> JX-320 and JX-325 are "accepted" by this version of the
> backend.
> - a separate process is forked which reads data from the
> scanner and delivers the data to the parent process.
> Unlike several other backends, which also fork a reader
> process and transfer the data to parent process through
> a pipe, the Sharp backend uses shared memory for this
> purpose.

May I ask why?

MF

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