On 22 February 2012 10:35, Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> wrote: > Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 22 February 2012 09:17, Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> wrote: >>> Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 22 February 2012 08:36, Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> wrote: >>>>> Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> But, since we write out to the cookie jar frequently, wouldn't it be >>>>>> inefficient to be constantly re reading (and reparsing) the entire >>>>>> cookie file? >>>>> >>>>> Yes, but we're already doing that, so apparently it's not a big problem >>>>> in practice. >>>> >>>> I was clear that we were constantly writing to the cookie jar. I was >>>> not clear that we were manually rereading it each time, now i see that >>>> the getcookies function is doing it. That seems rather inefficient >>>> also because on every request signal emitted we are reloading the >>>> cookie jar. That means it's not only every time we reload a page, but >>>> whenever the page requests new info (eg facebook while scrolling >>>> through the feed) >>>> >>>> What is a better solution, or is that the best solution? >>> >>> A better solution would be to cache the cookie file contents and only >>> re-read if something has changed. The "best" solution, with respect to >>> efficiency, would be to have some central cookie daemon that can send >>> the changed cookies to the running Surf instances. Uzbl uses this last >>> approach, but I think it's far too complicated. >> >> What about inotify? I am now thinking that would be the best. Instead >> of loading the file on every request, we could just check for inotify >> events. We can create an event for the cookie file using IN_MODIFY >> event. if there has been an event, then we reread. > > Yes, inotify would be the mechanism by which file changes are > discovered, although it's not portable. I'm not certain what the > Suckless Zeitgeist is on using Linux-only facilities. >
Okay, who is the head guru to be consulted on these matters?
