Been mainly testing-day, focused on win32 port. From what I can tell, everything's working on win32 as good as it does on linux. Interesting note tho - hydranode uses around 2-3 times less cpu on windows than on linux. And that's when built with GCC - rebuilding with MSVC adds another 30+% performance improvement :).

A thing about those speed-o-meters ... we'll need to lower the resolution - they'r too sensitive for anything right now. Currently their set to 100ms precision, 1-sec history, but this results in a lot of rate fluctuation, since in real world, network transfers are never stable, you get 5kb now, then 2kb in half a second later, and so on, so basically the trick is to average everything down to some level where it "stabilizes". For example, the statistics lines printed every 10 seconds (yes, you guessed it - 10sec averages) - show rather steady rates, while the rates on the "statusbar" fluctuate widely. Anyway, I think we should go somewhere along the lines of 2 or 3-sec averages, with 50ms precision. This will mean 20*3*4=240 bytes history data stored for each speedmeter - no mentionable overhead.

Other than that, I'v been thinking on how to design/implement the client/upload management in core. Basically, first we need some kind of BaseClient structure, that will incorporate various details about the client (network, ip addr, client soft et al). This will also be visible to user interfaces. Then we need some kind of UploadManager, to which modules wishing to upload to other peers register themselves, and the UploadManager will then open up upload slots (based on module priorities, current transfer rates et al) as needed. UploadManager will also need some kind of method for closing upload slots (when there are too many of them, or dead slots, or similar). DownloadManager, in turn, will need to act as global cross-reference table for file <-> client (again, needed by user interfaces). Then again, we might just merge UploadManager and DownloadManager into central ClientManager, which handles everything (in core).

Madcat, ZzZZ

PS: Updated builds are available at http://hydranode.bytez.org/r1942/
Edit: The win32 zip was broken, and was re-uploaded now. Re-download if it failed to unpack.