Re: Implementing Batch Requests in GConf

[Koen Kooi <koen dominion kabel utwente nl>]

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Federico Mena Quintero schreef:
> El s� 21-04-2007 a las 10:09 -0700, Ryan Cumming escribi� 
> Rocktastic; thanks for looking into this!
> 
>> However, looking at the implementation of gconf_client_add_dir it looks
>> like it actually recurses each dir and calls all_entries() to get all
>> the keys and values for that dir at once. Furthermore, the suggested
>> batch_lookup() API needs a list of keys to query which would make it
>> more expensive than the current all_entries() method.
>>
>> Does this item contain old information, or am I misunderstanding
>> something?
> 
> It's very probably inaccurate (euphemism for I'm a Big Fat Liar) :)
> 
> The point is that the "cache all the entries recursively" should not
> require num_keys roundtrips.  Maybe we need a little addition to the
> CORBA interface to do get_all_keys_and_values_recursively(dir) in one
> shot.

Or fix gconf-dbus to get rid of the corba beast?

regards,

Koen
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