[Telepathy] Offline cache

[Philip Withnall]

El lun, 22-04-2013 a las 12:11 -0700, Travis Reitter escribió:
> I think the only caching Folks itself should need would be:
> 
> * link/aggregation cache (fdo#687671). This wouldn't be a concern for
>   Telepathy itself, but I'm just listing it for completeness. Start-up
>   aggregation for Folks is a lot of repeated work which is mostly
>   redundant for almost all Folks client runs between Telepathy account
>   adds/removes (so, ~all runs).

This could be a step towards a folksd.

> * (possibly) the core vCard (mainly alias/nickname/Full Name) + avatar
>   for favorites in a format that can be displayed extremely quickly.
>   This would be an optimization around worst-case performance risks of
>   the full cache and I'd only implement if we can't guarantee good
>   performance in the general case using the caches below us. Though
>   depending on the implementation of the aggregation cache, this may
>   just be a matter of adding a bit for whether each is a favorite and
>   convenience API to retrieve just those Individuals (first).

How necessary is this? I think we should only add something like this in
response to profiling, once the other optimisations (such as an
aggregation cache) have been implemented. It might turn out to be
unnecessary.

> Did I miss anything, Philip?

Not that I can think of.

Philip