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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: low performance of kio
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-21 18:46:01
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:42:37PM -0500, mosfet wrote:
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, mosfet wrote:
> > > Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > >
> > > ...snip...
> > >
> > > > > Just more of my 2c from someone who remains pretty much clueless about
> > > > > the internals of KIO ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Well, as Waldo already pointed out: optimizing the block size should
> > > > help already a lot. And an optimization for "file:" is not the problem
> > > > I guess. But it's a f**ing work to add this and do it right.
> > >
> > > Sure, but I can see it gaining us a lot and you would be loved by all us
> > > non-KIO developers if it was implemented :)
> > 
> > I seemed to have missed the start of this thread. Can you point me to an
> > application that is suffering from the slow speed of KIO? I saw some numbers
> > like 2000Kb/s wo KIO and 200Kb/s with KIO. Could whoever posted that send me
> > the program/script used for measuring this?
> > 
> > Doing something based on rumours isn't very productive.
> > 
> 
> Come on Waldo, even the KIO developers have said KIO for local files is
> slow and suggested you use fread/write when speed is essential. Quit
> trying to deny there is a problem.

No-one denies that doing things in another process is on the whole
slower than doing them directly. No way it can be the same speed or
faster (since the remote process does what you would do directly).
The question is how big is the difference and whether it's acceptable or not.

Waldo is right, all this are just rumours up to now. Somebody comes up
with the idea that something is slow and everyone takes it for granted.

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