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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/icons
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-07-20 11:52:28
Message-ID: 200707201352.28961.zander () kde ! org
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On Friday 20 July 2007 13:04:04 Rivo Laks wrote:
> > Why not use KLockFile everywhere, to keep the code simple and
> > portable?
> >
> > ifdefs have a tendency to break since any change is only tested on
> > half the code paths...
>
> KLockFile should to be slower than just flock() as it does lots of
> stuff which I don't really need. So for performance reasons I decided
> to use just flock() (and no, i haven't actually profiled how much
> slower it is).

Is the speed difference so big that it warrents the extra maintenance 
problems ?
Since this is about disk access some extra code doesn't seem a bit deal; 
the bottleneck will most likely be the disk anyway.

-- 
Thomas Zander

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