Re: How to use Quarks?

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

If you are accessing data member(g_object_set_data) frequently you could
use quarks to accelerate the looking up process(g_object_set_qdata).

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 12:56 -0200, Patrick Braga wrote:
> I've just begun learning GLib, and I came across Quarks. The documentation 
> describes them as "association between strings and integer identifiers. 
> Given either the stringo or the GQuark identifier it is possible to 
> retrieve the other."
>
> This seems really useful and all, but I have no idea when this could be 
> applied. I don't necessarily want code examples, just something like "if 
> you want to do this then you could use quarks to..."
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrick Braga
> http://theunixgeek.blogspot.com
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