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List:       kde-optimize
Subject:    Re: comments on KDE performance tips
From:       Maks Orlovich <mo002j () mail ! rochester ! edu>
Date:       2003-01-16 14:41:51
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> doesn't gconf have answers for this sort of problem?
> i thought they used a central db and a cache, and alerted
> apps of config changes and stuff?

I don't think we open enough config files for it to make much difference 
(although I may be wrong when it comes to cold starts and machines with 
little memory), I think, since the commonly used files will probably be in 
the caches since after the desktop startup anyway; particularly since KConfig 
parser and I/O code are very fast, while the data-structures are slow 
(Maintaining a red-black tree with a key containing two strings is a lot more 
expensive than one would expect). Plus, you have to do IPC, which even when 
hyperoptimized may still take some context switches. 

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