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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: low performance of kio
From:       Stefan Schimanski <1Stein () gmx ! de>
Date:       2000-04-20 18:21:35
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> > Forgive me if this sound naive, but I was under the impression that KIO should be used
> > whenever possible, in order to promote said "transparency". If you insist that ppl
> > use which ever method is more appropriate, then use fread for local files and nfs or
> > ftp for network operations, and skip KIO altogether.
> > 
> 
> This is kindof what I was thinking but I was too much a newbie with KIO
> to mention it ;-) I thought one of the main advantages of KIO was to be
> able to use the same chunk of code for both local and remote files >:)
> I'm totally ignorant here but perhaps it would be good to add hacks to
> KIO that optionally just use normal I/O without slaves for local files
> but generate the same signals as other jobs (reading/writing a chunk of
> data then generating a signal)? Dunno if this is possible or not. It's
> certainly not good to be saying "Don't use KIO for local file access".

I agree. This would speed up several apps a lot. Loading huge pictures is quite
slow with the current implementation. Another example is konqi. Try to copy a
600 MB cdrom image with it. Be sure to reserve enough time to copy it with
around 5 sec per MB :-)

Stefan

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