Quicksilver’s losing weight; a far cry from the 30+ MB RAM usage it once required while idling. The speed at which it runs is also nearing “spectacular” status.

Not for human consumption. Yet.
Quicksilver’s losing weight; a far cry from the 30+ MB RAM usage it once required while idling. The speed at which it runs is also nearing “spectacular” status.

Not for human consumption. Yet.
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This is so great. Thanks for your work on quicksilver (+ plugins). Can’t wait for a release!
professed by Martin Ström on March 26, 2008 8:52 pm | Permalink
Hey Ankur,
I’m quite looking forward to the improved speed of quicksilver and I’d state again that you’re doing a great job working on quicksilver. Keep up your work!
uttered by Martin Hauser on March 26, 2008 8:57 pm | Permalink
I assume this is the “new” quicksilver, not the old branch? Anyway, glad to see it’s alive. Good work!
stated by Chousuke on March 26, 2008 9:03 pm | Permalink
Thanks.
The release will take a while. I’ll be very short of time until the end of the year. There are also a number of major decisions to be made regarding triggers, some of the plugins and some old features.
Chousuke, this is still the “old” Tiger-compatible QS.
stated by Ankur on March 26, 2008 9:14 pm | Permalink
Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put in so far improving QS. I installed your latest version after discovering your blog by accident. Ever since QS has been markedly snappier and the number of crashes has diminished greatly. Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to try out your next version.
divulged by Hugh on March 26, 2008 9:26 pm | Permalink
My current QS instance is 10 times that and growing. So, do want! (-:
Is that the development branch?
declared by Andreas Fuchs on March 26, 2008 9:29 pm | Permalink
Keep up the great work, this is really cool!! Thanks!
spoken by Dennis Kirschner on March 26, 2008 11:11 pm | Permalink
My quicksilver is over 11 times that.. I’d kill for this next release!
recorded by Tyler B on March 26, 2008 11:53 pm | Permalink
Will this new version of QuickSilver be released as open source? Under which license?
composed by Matthieu Cormier on March 26, 2008 11:56 pm | Permalink
Drool. You need any testing?
uttered by Steven Fisher on March 27, 2008 1:06 am | Permalink
Really great to hear that my favourite application is in good hands
recorded by Gernot on March 27, 2008 3:44 am | Permalink
If you’re a student and want to hack on objective-C code why not apply to Google to do it? Looks like they’ve grants available for some GNUstep stuff:
http://gnustep.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-summer-of-code-by-monday-march.html
mentioned by Paul on March 27, 2008 9:35 pm | Permalink
Oh SNAP! I’m excited.
declared by seyDoggy on March 28, 2008 2:11 am | Permalink
I know you have stated previously that money is not your motive for developing QS. If not $’s, is there anything else you need? I’d provide to the best of my ability
recorded by Hans Czajkowski Jørgensen on March 28, 2008 3:29 am | Permalink
Can’t wait for this release! My QS process currently uses 40+ MB!
stated by Bruce Giovando on March 28, 2008 4:42 am | Permalink
Great work…. i would however like to use this interface: http://www.mygnu.com/julius/proj_bezel.html
Any clue why i cannot use it on your builds?
uttered by lowfi on March 29, 2008 12:54 am | Permalink
May the god I don’t actually believe in bless the pants right off you. Many thanks for continuing this work.
professed by piminnowcheez on March 29, 2008 8:32 am | Permalink
Matthieu, I’ll hopefully commit most of the changes back to the svn repo, but I have to discuss a few things with Alcor first. Testing etc. might follow after that.
Hans, thanks, but I can’t think of anything :).
Lowfi, from the Bezel HUD website:
These builds are the Tiger-compatible B5X branch. Bezel HUD requires Leopard.
published by Ankur on March 29, 2008 10:34 am | Permalink
Thank you for your work on this!
divulged by Geordan on March 30, 2008 12:05 am | Permalink
damn……..
getting the memory footprint to be a 1/10 of what it was is no easy task.
I’m looking forward to the day when my RSS feed indicates “DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE”
Keep up the excellent work…I’m sure I’ll feel like donating when the time comes around!
written by firas on March 30, 2008 5:27 pm | Permalink
Many thanks for the great work!
published by Jeeva on March 30, 2008 7:40 pm | Permalink
I can’t wait until the day that Quicksilver comes back to me from its crashy-memory-slug death.
Thank you so much for this!
spoken by David on April 1, 2008 3:49 am | Permalink
Many thanks.
Apple: For the love of God, PLEASE hire Ankur and make Quicksilver part of Leopard!
determined by Matthew on April 1, 2008 6:47 pm | Permalink
ankur this looks really really good.
revealed by soundmasterj on April 3, 2008 6:51 am | Permalink
+1 Thanks!
Really appreciate it!
Yes, Quicksilver should be included with Apple, and Ankur should be hired!
declared by Joe on April 6, 2008 9:46 pm | Permalink
Any interest in distributing a version with a crash reporter like some of those discussed here in it?
http://daringfireball.net/2006/02/scr_addenda
might generate a lot of noise at first, but a super stable product later.
disclosed by Stefan on April 7, 2008 11:30 pm | Permalink
Hope it’s ready soon… thank you for your effort!
stated by QSfan on April 13, 2008 9:17 am | Permalink
thanks for the continued work on my favorite app. can’t wait for the new version and for some work on updating various plug-ins”several do not work well. keep up the good work.
proclaimed by jonna on April 15, 2008 2:37 pm | Permalink
Thank you so much! Please keep up the good work.
reported by Zhen Sun on April 21, 2008 9:36 pm | Permalink
I’ve been experiencing random crashes in leopard that weren’t there in tiger. I’ll just be pulling up a script or a program and the app will just crash, no error, no nothing. I have a terminal script (qs.sh) that basically does
killall Quicksilver && open -a Quicksilverto bring it back quickly, but its still annoying. I think i might pull down a copy of the source myself and tinker. I wouldn’t mind pitching in with the cleanup effort, I am going to have time for that kind of thing this summer, for the first time in a while!posted by peelman on April 22, 2008 10:18 am | Permalink
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