[Development] Mime database size

[Arnaud Vrac]

Here is the description of the binary file from the shared-mime-info spec:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/ar01s02.html#idm140622087725744

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Arnaud Vrac <rawoul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Commit fbeeaf2 in qtbase adds QT_NO_MIMETYPE:
>
> "The mime type stuff generates one of the biggest translation units in
> QtCore due to the compressed 1.7MB freedesktop.org.xml resource. With
> QT_NO_MIMETYPE, libQt5Core.so is almost 400Kb smaller (4.8MB->4.4MB gcc 4.9
> stripped release build)"
>
> It would be nice to be able to find a middle ground between disabling the
> mime database completely and adding 1.7MB of data to Qt. The
> update-mime-database binary from the shared-mime-info package can generate
> a binary file from the XML, which is 100KB large and still allows finding
> the mimetype of any file. The only difference with the XML is that you
> don't have the translated pretty string for the mime type. The binary file
> can also be mmapped and used for every request very efficiently, instead of
> allocating all mime types data in memory.
>
> --
> Arnaud Vrac
>



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Arnaud Vrac
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