[gpodder-devel] Feed cache updates now faster :)

  • From: schlaber at gmail.com (Bernd)
  • Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 14:18:26 +0200

Hello,

this was/is a great enhancement. I have 25 subscriptions and the feed
cache update is noticeable faster.
Great work.. Thanks.

Bernd Schlapsi


On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 13:54 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Thanks to the nice guys over at InternetTabletTalk[1] who were trying
> out gPodder on low-speed hardware (N8x0 internet tablets), and having
> _very_slow_ feed cache updates, I've looked into the issue and found
> several problems with the current code, which are not that problematic
> on my 2GHz machine, but which are quite problematic on low-end devices
> or installations with many podcast subscriptions.
> 
> I've improved the code, so the feed cache should now finally make use of
> e-tag and last-modified timestamps for feeds that didn't change, and
> make the whole feed cache updating procedure a bit faster and less
> I/O-intensive. This should be very visible for users with many
> subscriptions.
> 
> Please try it out and tell me if it works for you ;) You need the latest
> SVN version of gPodder and "svn up" to get the latest revision from
> trunk.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18684&page=6
> 
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