On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: <snipped> > > And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, > why not just using the filesystem ?
Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem. And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the memory I have. A simple message passed to apps which are listening is much better. It's short-lived and only uses (minimal) resources when the message is broadcast. After that, it doesn't linger, unless I am running an app that stores these messages somewhere. (Probably a debugger) -- Joost
