Implement RegFlushKey

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> > What you gain - fast, efficient, Unicode aware manipulation. Data 
> > integrity taken care for you. Concurrancy taken care for you. Seems too 
> > good to be true, I think.
> 
> Yeah, but nothing beats editing a registry file with Emacs (which is a joy
> to do when, for example, a damn game refuses to re-install because it
> detects some keys in the registry from its last installation).
> 
> Going through an UI to do stuff like that would be so Windowish as to not be
> funny :-)
Sure, but please keep in mind that currently loading a full Windows registry
(or a full Wine registry once we get there) takes lots of time on Wine
startup (Wineserver call scheduling), which could most likely be reduced
significantly by adopting a compressed format.

I don't really want to advocate a non-transparent registry format,
but if that manages to significantly decrease load time, then I'm afraid
the benefits are much higher than the disadvantages.

Andreas Mohr