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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Disk usage optimizations
From:       Esben Mose Hansen <kde () mosehansen ! dk>
Date:       2005-02-25 18:11:55
Message-ID: 200502251909.56567.kde () mosehansen ! dk
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On Friday 2005-02-25 15:17, Manuel Amador wrote:
> > B) Suddenly I'm more afraid of this port to windows because of things
> > like we can't assume forks/open/stat are fast
>
> Not only we cannot assume that, we can count on the fact that forks,
> opens and stats are EXTREMELY slow.  Do you ever wonder why Windows
> tends to ship icon libraries instead of single icons, and include
> commonly used resources in executables?

Personally, I'm hoping that the windows port will be a fork rather than a 
supported platform. I have done crossplatform between Z/OS, Linux, AIX and 
Windows and my god, windows suck. I mean, Z/OS is bad, but not even in the 
same league. 

Being able to fork all the time is so nice, so efficient and so much /cleaner/ 
than execv or threads. All IMHO, of course.

-- 
regards. Esben
 
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