[maemo-developers] dbus overhead of unnecessary signals

[From: Ross Burton]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:19 -0500, Austin Che wrote:
>     Sending signals to unknown targets seems to me to be a common
>     paradigm in the dbus world but I have not seen a dbus program that
>     avoids sending signals that no one cares about. Why is this?  Is
>     there an efficient way to avoid unnecessary dbus signals that
>     doesn't require writing lots of code? It seems ideal if the event
>     daemon could just ask the bus daemon or be notified by it when
>     someone is listening for a particular signal.

This would indeed be a useful optimisation, I suggest that you contact
the dbus mailing list to work out some form of notification so that
clients can ask to be told when there are listeners for a particular
signal.

Ross
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