Re: profile sharing and directory service

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.  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.

--Chris