On Friday, December 2, 2005, 22:44:08, Michael Schneider wrote: > The windows registry is slow, possibility that one single application > smashes the whole thing is very high, it's hard to maintain.
Registry slow? Get RegMon from sysinternals, and look at the number of transactions Registry handles per second - (I get an average of 870 on my computer). Now imagine that all of these were instead querying normal files on disk - your disk cache would be trashed, and all file access would slow down considerably. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > [The Bat! v3.62.12 on Windows 2003 5.2.3790.Service Pack 1] Murphy was an optimist... -- O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Laws ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.63.06 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
