Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Martin Konold]

Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2004 01:43 schrieb Keith Packard:

> Instead, I suggest that applications which read the database first check
> timestamps to 
> see if the cached version is out of date and regenerate the cache at that
> point themselves.  A few stats at program startup time to avoid some bug
> reports and mildly confused users seems like a good trade to me.

IMHO these "view" extra stats really hurt. Think about high latency accesses 
to the filesystem (e.g. nfs) and about the fact that today the startup times 
are still rather bad on the linux platform.

On the other hand your concern is real and a daemon taking care about an 
uptodate cache is much more efficient. In addition if done correctly the 
applications can simply mmap the db read-only into their memory space.

Last but not least the daemon shall provide a run-once option for systems with 
very low system resources.

Yours,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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