Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 13, Issue 415
Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 13, Issue 415
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 13, Issue 415
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:38:29 +1000
> On 30 Sep 2016, at 3:48 AM, Gabriel Zachmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I was just a little bit hesitant to use the regular ScreenSaverDefaults for those really small pieces of data that change every time,
> because I already use the ScreenSaverDefaults to store quite a bit of other data (that changes only rarely) , in total 15 MB.
>
> That means the OS has to write all of that data back to disk just because I have changed an integer,
> doesn't it?
Don’t prematurely optimize.
Try it and see. How defaults are implemented is hidden - it may be a disk write or it may not, that’s a detail you don’t need to consider. If it turns out it’s really slow, and that is a problem, then worry about it. I suspect you won’t have to.
—Graham
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