Post #2350172
2026-05-10 17:16 UTC
For desktop/app level stuff this is already the case with DConf, so I guess the challenge would just be to extend this into the kernel/services how
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@plyth@feddit.org 2026-05-11 07:47
Avoiding round trips and context switches is desirable in itself, but the real advantage[citation needed] comes from allowing the I/O scheduler in the kernel to do a better job by saturating it with requests coming from all of the applications trying to read their keys (as opposed to a common configuration server serially requesting a single key at a time). Having all of the keys in a single compact binary format also avoids the intense fragmentation problems currently experienced by the tree-of-directories-of-xml-files approach en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dconf