Re: _wstat on Windows (actually stat stuff in general)

[Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>]

> Of course GIO is slower when you look at the LoC count, the question
> is for the typical case is performance acceptable.  If your
> application is opening a million files then maybe it's not typical.
Maybe my application runs on a router and not on an 64-core Core i5000 with 
16 petabytes of RAM. Just as Im not sure I'd drive a Bugati Veyron to the 
supermarket for a pint of milk, I'm not sure I'd use a Core i7 for a router 
than costs $150. If the "general utility" part of GLib extends to requiring 
massively more complex resources than alternatives, that pretty much seals 
GLib's fate as a "general purpose" anything and becomes instead a "very 
specific to the GNOME desktop" purpose library. No way you can convince me 
otherwise I'm afraid, and that's not because I'm being stubborn, it's 
because I (and I think you) know I'm right. GIO is appropriate for some 
applications, of that I have no doubt, but trying to convince me that it's 
a viable alternative to stat() when all I want it the damned file size? 
Never gonna happen.