comments on KDE performance tips

[Alexander Kellett]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:29:48PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 of January 2003 06:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I assume these applications are also reading zillions of little config,
> > font, icon, etc files as well.  That'll hurt.  One possible way of speeding
> > that up would be for the application to maintain its own cache (on-disk) of
> > all the info which it needed to start itself up.  So on the second startup
> > it can all be read in in a single swipe.  Obviously, information coherency
> > is an issue here.
> 
> Unfortunately, there are many files that could be accessed by various KDE 
> apps during their startup. This wouldn't be easy.

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?

Alex

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