begin  quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:31:06PM -0800:
[snip]
> None of this explains why it takes 20 minutes to compute the MD5 sum
> of the hard-drive file within the K3b "write and check CD" procedure.
> Nor does it explain why it takes 20 minutes to read the CD image and
> compute its MD5 sum in the same procedure.
> 
> There must be some weird software interference to make the whole
> process take something like 5x to 6x the sum of its parts.  There
> should be little overlap between the CPU-bound MD5sum and the
> I/O-bound disk reading.

Doesn't KDE and friends do IPC over a socket?  Perhaps there's some
communication going....
 
> If this demonstrates the advantages of ObjectOriented Programming, I
> don't see it.

I don't think it's an OO issue in and of itself. What is K3b written in?

-Stewart "OOP special sin: Pattern-Happiness." Stremler
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