On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, James Hawkins wrote: [...]
What needs to be done concerning this TODO? Looking through Bugzilla I found bug #422:
"Currently Wine loads the complete registry into memory at startup. This is relatively ok when the registry is small such as in fake_windows configurations, but when importing the registry fro a Windows partition this can result in the wineserver allocating more than 30MB. This slows down startup times very significantly and wastes memory even if most of it is going to be swapped out.
This bug far predates the recent events and relates to a completely different issue. I would say this issue is still relevant although it's probably not very urgent. Less urgent now since non-Windows registries tend to be smaller.