Hi, On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Lionel Ulmer wrote: > > What you gain - fast, efficient, Unicode aware manipulation. Data > > integrity taken care for you. Concurrancy taken care for you. Seems too > > good to be true, I think. > > Yeah, but nothing beats editing a registry file with Emacs (which is a joy > to do when, for example, a damn game refuses to re-install because it > detects some keys in the registry from its last installation). > > Going through an UI to do stuff like that would be so Windowish as to not be > funny :-) Sure, but please keep in mind that currently loading a full Windows registry (or a full Wine registry once we get there) takes lots of time on Wine startup (Wineserver call scheduling), which could most likely be reduced significantly by adopting a compressed format.
I don't really want to advocate a non-transparent registry format, but if that manages to significantly decrease load time, then I'm afraid the benefits are much higher than the disadvantages. Andreas Mohr
