Resedit (Was: Proposal for KControl)j

[Rik Hemsley]

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#if Alexander Kellett
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:43:31PM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 July 2002 10:30 am, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> > > how about making a binary db of the config files cached on the
> > > basis of a dir watcher (imon hopefully) of all the config files?
> >
> > Just because you use "binary db" in a sentence doesn't mean it will
> > be faster.
>
> no, the faster bit was the fact that it would be done by a
> dir watch and thus not at every process startup.

How is this 'binary' db to be accessed ? If it's by reading a file,
then you have to wait for I/O, which is about a billion times slower
than parsing some text. Or you could get it from a central server via
a pipe or something. Context switches appear. Oh, and how slow is text
config file parsing ? Did you measure it against 'binary' data ?

Not trying to put a dampener on the idea, just going by instinct as
to where the bottlenecks really are. Feel free to measure :)

Rik

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