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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] KIO::SlaveBase and the event loop
From:       "Roland Harnau" <truthandprogress () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-15 14:07:48
Message-ID: 476f836a0807150707w5636defet6a1c43ec5146b41a () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/7/15, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>:
> Well, my plan was a bit more ambitious. I wanted all ioslaves to run
> inside an event loop. The KIO::Connection would be used in in readyRead()
> slot handlers instead of waitFor* style functions as it is right now.
>
> It was too much work for too little gain.

Apropos ambitious plans: In the planning phase for KDE4 did you
consider to re-implement the IO slaves as threads? The process
creation cost including the D-Bus talk to klauncher seem quite high to
me, especially if Konqueror launches 20 or more  of them.


Roland
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