[Panel-devel] Tech Notes

[Richard Moore]

On 8/28/06, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> KServices already come from a binary cache, and one that is already in RAM:
> ksycoca. there's probably very, very little to be won by doing this again
> ourselves. in fact, it would almost certainly be slower (since you still have
> to read the binary cache), more bug prone and take up more memory

This is true but IIRC only the system level things are cached. It
might be worth considering if we should be caching user specific stuff
too. That said, this is of course an optimisation and can be looked at
later after profiling.

Rich.