Speed sensation

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 08:21, Roger Larsson wrote:
> What to do?
> * Don't demand page text (code) on computers with enough memory.
>   [See message from Andrew Morton below]
> * Use less configuration files, i.e a registry :-(
>   - A registry is a single point of failure.
>   - Hard to edit and search with ordinary tools.
>   + Fewer disc accesses, as long as it is continous on disk...
>
>   Well I do not like that but a persistent configuration file cache...
>   (but it is costly to check that the cache is consistent...)
>   Or gzip:ing all configuration files in .kde to one .gz

It's called ksycoca :-)

Ensuring that it is consistent is unfortunately one of the more time consuming 
operations during startup. Especially if the cache needs to be rebuild.

Cheers,
Waldo
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