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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE performance
From:       Martin Konold <konold () fiwi02 ! wiwi ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-02-13 16:24:47
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Matthias Hoelzer wrote:

> Why not put config files (and icons as well) into a zip archive? (You
> could use it without compression to speed things up) Then KConfig could
> load the entire archive at startup and serve the files out of it. Or it
> could use some more efficient method to access the entries (memory
> mapped files or whatever. This is not about the implementation, just
> about the principle). And you could still use kfm to browse and edit the
> config files, so there would be no difference in the handling.
> 
> Any comments?

Is zip available on all target machines? PAtent problems with zip/unzip?
Is it possible to easily add delete entries?

Regards,
-- martin

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