[oe] [gstreamer] Enabling binary cache (instead of the xml one)

[Phil Blundell]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 00:04 +0100, Holger Freyther wrote:
> Binary cache:
> 
> # Cached
> Total count: 119 plugins, 351 features
> real    0m 1.74s
> 
> XML Cache:
>
> # Cached
> Total count: 119 plugins, 351 features
> real    0m 1.87s

So, if I'm reading that right, the binary cache gives you a startup time
improvement (assuming a hot cache) of about 0.13 seconds.  It sounds
like there are probably bigger savings to be had by, as you suggest,
eliminating the stat() of all plugins and/or reducing the number of
unnecessarily installed plugins; it seems fairly unlikely that many
applications are really using all 119 of those.

That said though, "every little helps" and this certainly seems like it
would be a worthwhile improvement.  There's nothing particularly scary
about the use of mmap().

p.