Brad syllogism711@gmail.com writes:
There's a bug on bugzilla (422) that asks for the registry file format to be re-written in order to be able to dynamically load parts of the registry. If you don't feel like looking it up - don't worry, I'm going to explain why this would benefit wine. . .
It's said that wine loads the entire registry when it first runs, which can get become a waste - even if it's going to be swapped off anyway. . . It's also not the fastest method of input and especially output to the registry. . .
Actually the current method is probably the fastest for everything except the initial read. Admittedly it's not very elegant, but it's simple and allows us to store everything in text format. So I'm not at all convinced that using a real database would be worth the trouble.