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@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ typically involve zero system calls and are comparable to a hashtable lookup in terms of speed. Practically speaking, in simple non-layered setups, dconf is less than 10 times slower than GHashTable. -Writes are assumed only to happen in response to explicit user -interaction (like clicking on a checkbox in a preferences dialog) and -are therefore not optimised at all. On some file systems, dconf-service +Writes are not optimised at all. On some file systems, dconf-service will call fsync() for every write, which can introduce a latency of up to 100ms. This latency is hidden by the client libraries through a clever "fast" mechanism that records the outstanding changes locally (so @@ -48,9 +46,9 @@ graphical applications. dconf itself attempts to maintain a rather low profile with respect to dependencies. For the most part, there is only a dependency on GLib. -With the exception of the bin/ and editor/ directories, dconf is written -in C using libglib. This is a very strong dependency due to the fact -that dconf's type system is GVariant. +With the exception of the bin/ directory, dconf is written in C using +libglib. This is a very strong dependency due to the fact that dconf's +type system is GVariant. The dconf-service has a dependency on libgio, as do the client libraries that make use of GDBus (and the utilities that make use of those @@ -64,18 +62,12 @@ but still depends on libglib. It is not recommended to use this library unless you have a legacy dependency on libdbus-1 (such as in Qt applications). -bin/ and editor/ are written in Vala. The Vala compiler is not required -to compile tarball releases but is required for building out of git. +bin/ is written in Vala, hence the Vala compiler is required. -The editor also has a dependency on Gtk+ 3 and libxml2. The libxml2 -dependency should disappear at some point in the near future. In any -case, building the editor is optional (and can be switched off using ---disable-editor). +Installing dconf follows the typical meson dance: -Installing dconf follows the typical automake dance: - - ./configure (or autogen.sh from git) - make - make install + meson builddir + ninja -C builddir + ninja -C builddir install If you plan to contribute to dconf, please see the HACKING file. |