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There is still a registry, because the registry is still a great idea. Dvorak argues that the registry is 'a pile of junk clogging up the machine'. The registr
by mhansen 17y ago
There is still a registry, because the registry is still a great idea.
Dvorak argues that the registry is 'a pile of junk clogging up the machine'. The registry is a tree data structure - more nodes won't 'clog it up', it'll still take the same number of operations to get anywhere in the tree
- didroe 17y agoYeah, the registry is great. It would be much better though if the data was stored in application specific data files. They could still provide a unifying API but make it really easy to remove an application.
- j_baker 17y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but it wouldn't really be a registry then, would it?
- didroe 17y agoDepends on what your definition of registry is. If the current registry is stored in two non consecutive disk blocks (due to fragmentation), is that still a registry? Think of per application files as disk blocks, with the registry API caching those into memory and operating as if it was a single database.
- mgreenbe 17y agoIt's not clogged from the machine's perspective, but the user's. The problem is cleanly maintaining a computer with a registry that's gone through hundreds of OS updates and driver/application installs and uninstalls.
- chollida1 17y agoI don't think the data structure behind the registry is what he was referring to. I think he was referring to things like the right click menu registry entry that accumulate so many entries over time that it takes 30 seconds to show the right click menu.