CPU Frequency Scaling

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:29 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mar 5 décembre 2006 13:28, Dan Williams a écrit :
> 
> > Human manipulatable != machine maniuplatable
> 
> It seems to me the great failure of gconf users was to make this
> asumption, and consider that since the settings were available through
> gconf-editor there was no reason to clean-up/prettify the XML
> representation.
> 
> Just as sysadmins need to accept some structure in config files is
> required to ease machine manipulation, developpers need to accept
> indentation, comments, careful design are required to ease human
> manipulation.
> 
> There is no inherent reason elements in XML files can not be properly
> indented, commented and ordered so diff/patch and manual editing works
> (even if xslt + xsltproc should eventually superceded diff/patch for XML
> files). It will cost design time, it will cost processing time, but it's
> doable.
> 
> All the recent profiling ops show massive over-reading and polling of conf
> files by GNOME apps. Did we really mess up the config storage layer only
> to help applications writers abuse it in every possible way?

ARe you just making belligerent comments, or do you have any proof
for this "recent profiling" ?