[gst-devel] Binary registry - Re: gst_init usage

[Christian F.K. Schaller]

How hard did you try to look? I went to the bugzilla and entered the
search term 'binary registry', got three hits, one of them which is:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359653

Christian

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 17:55 +0530, Kumar, Pawan wrote:
> thanks;
> Not able to find the patch. Do you have the link from where I can get
> this and try it out.
> 
> -Pawan
> 
> On 12/13/06, Michael Smith <msmith at fluendo.com> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:00 +0530, Kumar, Pawan wrote: 
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > I found that gst_init() takes lot of time to initialize.
>         > Is anybody tried to thin down it ?
>         > Any suggestions on how to do it ?
>         
>         gst_init() loads the registry, and checks that it's up to
>         date. It also 
>         rebuilds the registry if it's out of date - that's usually the
>         bit
>         that's very slow, but it doesn't normally happen (it only
>         occurs if
>         you've changed your plugins).
>         
>         It shouldn't be overly slow if you have an up to date registry
>         (though 
>         it's still loading a large XML file and parsing it, then
>         stat()ing all
>         the plugins). There's a binary registry patch in bugzilla -
>         I'm not sure
>         how complete it is, but that should speed things up a little
>         bit over 
>         using an XML parser.
>         
>         Mike
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pawan Kumar
> 9845242729 
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