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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: low performance of kio
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-21 8:24:01
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> > 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 :-)
>
> Well, the advantage on the other hand is that you can do other stuff
> while
> copying it. If we use fread/fwrite directly in konqueror, it's _busy_.
> That's the design decision for now - not to block. But I could agree,
> that for copying that is not really necessary.

Maybe we shouldn't copy files in 2Kb block, but in slightly larger blocks.

Cheers,
Waldo

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