[vlc-devel] [PATCH] modules: on winstore we cannot save plugins.dat in the plugins folder

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le keskiviikkona 27. syyskuuta 2017, 9.53.09 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> > Writing the cache after loading all plugins manually is extremely slow,
> > especially on Windows (because PE format sucks so bad). Even now without
> > this problem, LibVLC instance creation spends most time recursing through
> > the plugins directories, so that will be removed in the near future as
> > well. It is only an artifact of the design before the plugins cache
> > afterall.
> 
> I wasn't aware we decided to not look for available modules on
> startup. How will modules be found then ?

By reading the cache.

> Do we still support plugins.dat ?

Of course, to remove recursion, we need to get the module list from somewhere 
else. plugins.dat is that somewhere else.

> How is it supposed to work for libvlc users,

That makes no differences now and it will not make a difference then either. 
VLC and LibVLC apps load the module bank the same way, and always have.

> especially on mobile platforms?

If you are referring to statically linked modules, they do not use recursion 
nor cache at the moment, so they are not concerned.

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