5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

killerdan56 said:
is arm support a big deal?
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I don't think it's a big deal today, but I suspect its importance will grow over time:
  1. CPU-agnosticism is, in general, a good thing, if done properly. In the best cases, there is no CPU-specific code in the code base, which makes it easier to subsequently compile the code later for other architectures, such as RISC-V, or whatever comes down the pike 5-10 years from now.
    1. As always, "It depends," but CPU-agnostic code often implies a more modern, thought-out approach to architecture and best-practices coding, because the duct-tape and baling-wire approach does NOT last long on multi-arch software projects. Making little CPU-specific fixes everywhere a CPU-specific bug rears its ugly head will soon collapse under its own weight. So if BI 6 is written in truly CPU-agnostic code, it probably means that the development team has refactored things to make the whole system more robust, modular, and maintainable. Yes, there will be shiny new bugs in 6.0.0, but I suspect the code base will be of higher quality than was 5.x, overall.
  2. There aren't a lot of ARM-based PCs on the market today, but it will grow over time.
  3. BI on ARM means that it should be possible to run in a VM on a Mac. This isn't going to be a huge segment of the user base, but it will be a nice option for some people, like my brother.
 
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tmushy said:
My cpu usage shot up to 55% with 5.9.99
I remember it was around 15 to 20% before this update
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My seek/scrub/playback performance also went massively downhill with .99, although oddly enough, my reported CPU usage didn't go up. But this is in UI3, so maybe the CPU usage reporting isn't as accurate.

In any case I reverted back to .96, and now everything is good again.

Will wait for 6.0.1.
 
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