LinuxRegistry in Freedesktop & KDE

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:12 -0400, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> El Friday 16 April 2004 09:26, Sean Middleditch escribió:
> > GConf is moving in the other direction as its been shown that all those
> > little files are very innefficient; most apps want to read *all* their
> > keys, not just one or two.  Reading them all when they're one per file
> > is very slow/inefficient, especially if you have more than a handful of
> > keys.  (Like most real-world applications would.)
> 
> You are thinking in desktop apps. Yes, you're right. But we have to consider 
> those console apps and small utilities/daemons/servers/tools.... they should 
> not have hundred of keys.
> 
not hundreds, but thousands. Some daemons on my systems have very large
config files.

cheers