Printer Autodetection

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Mon Nov 14 08:08:38 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 00:06 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Sunday 13 November 2005 23:09, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> [...]
> > It might be nice to merge via
> > FDI files but the database is huge so I don't know what the performance
> > would be like. 
> 
> Brendan told me at #hal there are more than 1500 printer in the foomatic 
> database. I think it would slow down the matching for printer for this 
> fdi-file, but not complete sure about.

OTOH that's a good reason for optimizing matching .fdi files :-) - I do
believe the performance issue fixable so it shouldn't be a reason
against doing stuff.

Cheers,
David




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