Resedit (Was: Proposal for KControl)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:24:09PM +0100, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
ksycoca is mmapped.
having a central config server also has the advantage of changes not
being lost if two applications simulutaneously modify different entries
in the same file. taking this further, applications could actually lock
keys, groups or files for the time some config dialog is open.

greetings

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