Christopher Blizzard wrote: > Doug Turner wrote: > >> Christopher Blizzard wrote: >> >>> Doug Turner wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Exactly. Shared files could exist anywhere and come from any >>>> source (not just an ldap backend). >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Shared files or shared structured data? >>> >>> Take prefs for example. You could save the prefs as a blob and >>> upload them to a web server, or you could just update whatever has >>> changed to some kind of structured data store. >>> >>> --Chris >>> >> shared files; sharing anything more grandular probably will be a >> huge performance hit. >> > > huh? It doesn't have to be. In fact it can be a performance win. I > wasn't talking about actually saving and flushing the prefs at each > change.
oh. I misunderstood. > Imagine if you updated 2 prefs out of 100 and then only had to sync > the 2 prefs instead of all 100 at shutdown (or once every 5 minutes.) > That would be a performance gain. I am sure that we could be smart about when and how we write preferences and shared data back to a "roaming" server.
