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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] KIO::SlaveBase and the event loop
From:       "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <kossebau () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-07-16 22:39:02
Message-ID: 200807170039.02761.kossebau () kde ! org
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Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2008, um 20:09 Uhr, schrieb Roland Harnau:
> 2008/7/15, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>:
> > Roland Harnau wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> > No. We've wanted separate processes for ioslaves for the whole time,
> > since this improves stability. IOSlaves are add-on plugins (yay for
> > multiple redundant buzzwords meaning the same thing!) that can come from
> > many different sources. We can't really vouch for the stability of them.
>
> This is equally true for $project,  but they are nevertheless
> in-process entities. It should be sufficient if the IO slaves
> delivered with KDE are stable enough.

And some would even consider this to be a thing where the design of $project 
could be improved, for stability and security reasons :)

Friedrich

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