[Development] Fixing file dialog performance on Windows

[Sérgio Martins]

On Thursday, March 21, 2013 05:05:00 Shaw Andy wrote:
> > The file dialog takes up to 30 seconds to be usable if we're listing
> > files on a USB or remote share with 10k files.
> > 
> > 
> > The bottlenecks are QFileIconProvider::icon(const QFileInfo &info) and
> > QFileInfo::isSymLink().
> > 
> > 
> > I solved the icon problem by looking them up in the registry, by
> > extension, and caching them.
> 
> 
> I assume that for executables you look it up directly or is that stored in
> the registry too?

For .exe and .ico files, it will go through the current code path.
 

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