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> As a side note: on modern Windows NT implementations the so called "registry bloat" is non-issue How modern? I manage Windows 7 (transitioning to 10) machine
by InitialLastName 4y ago
> As a side note: on modern Windows NT implementations the so called "registry bloat" is non-issue
How modern? I manage Windows 7 (transitioning to 10) machines that are used for QC in a hardware manufacturing environment that enumerate hundreds of devices (with mostly identical VID/PID) every week. We find that if we don't clear old devices out of the registry every so often, the enumeration time slows to a crawl.
- dfox 4y agoThat is kind of a niche use case ;) In the times when it was a real issue (I would hazard a guess that that means “before XP”) the reason was that the original registry on disk format made every registry access more or less O(n) in bunch of things like the overall on disk hive size, total number of keys, number of subkeys in each of the keys along the path…