Many of those are done lazily specifically so that they won't slow down app launch. However, I didn't mean to come across as "jumping all over" the idea--I was just saying we shouldn't brush it off as insignificant without measuring it.
--Amanda On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Mike Pinkerton <pinker...@chromium.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Amanda Walker <ama...@chromium.org> wrote: >> Application startup is one of the areas where we count every >> millisecond, and try to touch the disk as little as possible. I don't >> think it's safe to assume that the cost of creating and writing to a >> file is negligible in this context without actually measuring it. > > Just curious, how many files are read/written loading a profile: > history, bookmarks, cache, last session, preferences, cookies, etc? I > imagine it's non-trivial and happens at every startup. > > I agree that the proposal just for the sake of consolidating code may > not be warranted, but to jump all over it because a file has to be > written seems like premature optimization in light of everything else > that happens on the disk at app startup. > > -- > Mike Pinkerton > Mac Weenie > pinker...@google.com > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---