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Things

I haven’t updated in awhile. This isn’t going to be much better, but it’s something.

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Speed up!

So. Matthias Fuchs of Speeding up KGet with Callgrind fame pointed out to me on IRC the other day that KIconLoader seemed to still be using a lot of time to load icon image data, even when the icon should have already been cached.

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Big update collection

Unfortunately I haven’t made any blog updates in awhile. I’ve been very busy between work and school (and I will likely spend this weekend working on a 20 page project that I’ve written 0 pages for ;). That doesn’t mean I have nothing to report though…

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Timing belts

So… the engine on my Chevrolet Aveo abruptly stopped working today. Always a nice experience!

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Loading an icon with KIconLoader

Given that I’ve recently been mucking about in the internals of KIconLoader and gaining more knowledge about its inner workings, I’ve learned a bit about how the icon loading mechanisms work in the KDE platform. I thought it would make for an interesting entry so here I go:

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Implementing a shared cache: Part 4

Almost two weeks since I posted Part 3, which means it’s probably time to wrap up my series on implementing KSharedCache with this post. As a recap for those who don’t want to skip to the end of Part 3, I said I’d talk about having to defragment the shared cache and porting KIconLoader.

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