Re: The Windows registery - not very good
- From: Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 21:58:03 -0700
GreyCloud wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:GreyCloud wrote:Steve de Mena wrote:Jesper wrote:zara <zaraspook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That is, if you don't have one, like OSX.
But if you do, you can customize your computer to do things exactly as you
want to.
But Apple feels you maccies don't deserve choices.
The Apple way - or the highway.
Windows registry is a monolith that grows bigger and heavier all the
time slowing the PC down to a crawl. That's the way in all versions of
Windows, from 3.1 to Vista. I don't know about Windows 7, but if M$ are
smart, they will get rid of the monster in that version.
No such crap in mac/Linux/Unix.
Large Registry = Slower Windows.
One of the perpetual Windows myths.
It's an indexed database, the size is irrelevant.
Well, it does slow down over time. You'd need a registry cleaner to clean out the old junk.
Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. Myth. Any slowdown has nothing to do with the registry.
It does when you load a program and the os has to slog thru a lot of deadwood.
Explain.
Ever try to remove the useless stuff out the registry by hand?
No need to remove "useless stuff". Just like no reason to delete unneeded plist files.
And it does slow down the startup times as well.
Nope. What slows startup times is adding more and more apps to start at bootup.
Of course after things are up and running, the only time the registry may get used is when
the app has to access that registry or store something in that registry, which a lot of apps do.
Via APIs which are extremely efficient and could care less if the registry is 7MB or 7k.
A piss poor place for variable storeage.
I could also say 2,000 plist files on my Mac "slows the system down" but it doesn't.
And not even relevant.
If your PeeCee is running really slow, then you have a very high chance it is infested with an iBot.
Steve
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