XArchiver on-disk read-cache.

[Stephan Arts]

On 4/12/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
>
> Stephan Arts wrote:
> > That would mean we we need to decide what data is truely relevant to the
> > user and what is 'just for fun', and remove that.
>
> You'll need to do that anyway, since all data will never be relevant to
> the user.
>
> But a quick look at the source tells me that you are using GtkListStore
> with string columns for all values. That does of course waste a lot of
> memory, as its a generic container, not designed to be memory-friendly
> with 60k entries. Is there a special reason to use GtkListStore? Why not
> simply implement GtkTreeModel with a lightweight per-file structure?


This is a good idea, will implement a GtkTreeModel for that.

But i need to convince Giuseppe to drop some data to improve performance. We
had a little discussion about that a while ago, and he did not like the idea
of losing 'usefull' information.

Benedikt


Stephan
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