KIconLoader Optimization Idea

[Simon Perreault]

On Monday 06 June 2005 11:04, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> Another option that might be worth pursueing (but is very difficult to
> write reliably!) is to do all file I/O with icons in a thread. The app can
> then continue to start up, assuming I/O itself is not the bottleneck. (And
> if it is, then shared memory or anything else won't help much. After all,
> if the shared cache misses the file you still need disk I/O, and if the
> shared cache has the file then chances are that the kernel's file cache
> also still holds the icon.

I think that solution is much better, but incredibly hard to write.