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The issue is not as much parsing as reading from a lot of different files. As someone else has put it in other thread sequential reading is fast. Random readin
by vrotaru 15y ago
The issue is not as much parsing as reading from a lot of different files.
As someone else has put it in other thread sequential reading is fast. Random reading from 50+ files which involves seeking the disk is not.
Of course the gconf configuration may have had other alternatively smart ways of doing things and gsettings authors are just optimizing where it is easy to do.
And by the way the gconf stuff is still necessary
sudo apt-get remove gconf2
shows the a whole lot of packages which still depend on it, so when the transition will be complete there will be more than "56 fucking kilobytes of text"
- kragen 15y agoSticking all the stuff you need to read at login time into one file is at least plausibly reasonable (although! ldd /usr/bin/gnome-terminal | wc alone still gives me 52 libraries, so config files are not close to the only problem here!) but turning that one file into an opaque binary file is not.