Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> >
> > 2 things come to mind:
> > - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255
> 
> Well, D-Bus provides a single entry point for any requests to the data. 
> If we then provide some direct access using a library, that complicates 
> things further. At this point we are not threaded, however, we are 
> currently looking into the possibility of doing this due to recent events.
> 
> What is so bad about using D-Bus?


Perhaps the fact that D-Bus wasn't meant as a "super fast"-IPC and the
fact that having to do two task switches + all the associated wire
overhead to retrieve a piece of data will be quite slow?