Re: lame view cache hack

[Alex Graveley <alex ximian com>]

Hi,

Ya memory usage is a concern, but in my real world use I haven't found
it to be much of a problem at all.

There are some things we could do here to try to cut it down -- reusing
the older views for new urls instead of destructing them, or limiting
the number of cached views at any one time, perhaps only caching
icon/list views in case you want to browse a lot of huge images or text
files.

However, if you are relying on nautilus' memory management to be
directly related to the location you are currently browsing you've
probably got bigger problems.  Spend the 4 minutes it takes for the
memory to be reclaimed by sending email to your mum :)

-Alex

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 03:16, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2002, Alex Graveley wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So I wrote the following ugly hack which keeps a most recently used list
> > of views around and tries to reuse them when loading a new location. 
> > Views are destroyed after 4 minutes of inactivity.  
> > 
> > This has two effects, first, browsing around is pretty speedy (though a
> > little flickery), and secondly, the view remains scrolled to the correct
> > location between location changes.
> > 
> > There are some bugs, but I wanted to see if this would be considered raw
> > crack-smokery before I spend any more time on it :)
> 
> It sounds like this has the potential to use a whole lot of memory. Have 
> you looked into this?
> 
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