Hello Travis, On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 18:16, Travis Reitter < [email protected]> wrote:
> Really, EDS isn't ideal, but it's gotten a lot better in the last year > or two, and the people working on it now seem to have a good idea of > what needs to be done to improve it. > i see, well EDS improvements might help on a legacy tip.. > > What's the issue with using plain files from your point of view (if > > there is any)? > > You could do that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's a lot slower than > e-d-s. Eg, if you've got 300 contacts, and you want to search, you'll > have to open 300 files, read them, marshal them into your in-memory > structure, then start the actual search. > for 2000 files with 1kB each that would be 2MB, yes, i can see that being an annoyance on slow machines.. I see your point here, too. > I think a database really makes sense in the context of contacts. > They're really optimized for retrieving and slicing data, which address > books spend a lot of their time doing. > exactly. Maybe Tracker can do this for you? It's fresher and looks like a useful candidate to me..
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