On Thu, 13 May 1999, Matthias Ettrich wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 1999, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> >This is about KDE 1.1.1 but I guess it's still valid in the 2.0 branch.
> >
> >If an application has to save a fairly large amount of data in
> >KTMW::saveProperties() and to read it again in
> >KTMW::readProperties() it takes ages.
> >
> >Load a 100KB document into kless (from kdesdk/kexample - kedit or
> >kwrite won't show the behaviour because they don't save the date
> >itself but the file name resp. URL only). If you log out from KDE
> >it takes several minutes to save the data. It isn't related to
> >storing the whole data into a QString; that's fast.
> >KConfig::writeEntry() takes all the time. Same for 
> >KConfig::readEntry().
> >
> >It's very annoying and a user used to Windoze might think the box hangs.
> >Writing or reading 100K can't take that long. Any ideas how to speed
> >that up?
> 
> Yes sure, it's a bug if application store huge amount of data in kconfig.
> Instead they should get a tmpfile name (KApplication supports this), store the
> data in the tmpfile and just save the filename in the kconfig object.

Well, kless is yours.  :-)))

Uwe

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