XArchiver on-disk read-cache.

[Benedikt Meurer]

Stephan Arts wrote:
> I am concidering an on-disk output-cache for xarchiver, i would like to
> know what your ideas are about this.
> 
> This is the reason i might implement it:
> - currently xarchiver loads all data it can show on screen in memory.
> For an archive containing 60k files this can make memory usage grow with
> 60MB.
> - archivers like rar take ages to perform any operation on them. reading
> lines from a plain-text file is done in no-time.
> - by only reading the lines in memory that are actually visible on
> screen i can reduce memory usage, and to the user it looks like opening
> the archive goes faster.
> 
> it will make scrolling in the archive a bit slower, because we need to
> access the cache file for it.
> but again, reading lines from a text-file is pretty fast.
> 
> What are your ideas about this?

Maybe I am missing the point, but why do you need 60MB to display the
contents of a 60KB file?

> Stephan

Benedikt