From: Magnus Holmgren <lear_at_algonet.se>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:28:46 +0200

Dominik Riebeling wrote:

>> Couldn't they be cached in memory and flushed at shutdown?
>
> is this needed at all? When accessing a bookmark (regardless if
> reading or writing it) the disc needs to spin up anyway, so the
> tracking information could be written during that spinup in the first
> place. Without knowing the code I'd imagine it already works like that
> -- doesn't it?

Yes, but the recent bookmarks list is a separate file, so there'd be two
files being updated, rather than one. The extra time for that ought to
be negligible though (the recent bookmarks is limited in size).

But even making it always maintain a recent bookmarks list only removes
one option in the "Maintain a list of recent bookmarks?" setting, unless
you also remove the "unique only" setting...

> Besides, as I mentioned at DevCon IMO bookmarks should be merged in
> some way with playlists. And we need to store the last position in the
> dynamic playlist upon shutdown too, so ...

Without creating a new playlist format? :)

   Magnus
Received on 2008-07-04