Radio UserLand Notes

I was asked privately about a 2005 Radio Roadmap so I'll answer publicly: we will have one but it's not public yet. The work that is being done with Manila has some benefits to Radio, but it also creates issues. The majority of our development time is spent with the Manila codebase so it leaves me to spend the majority of my time profiling and debugging Radio.

We've discovered the source of Radio's processor drain and it relates to a single kernel verb-- file.modified. Radio's upstream code calls this verb several times, sometimes multiple times per file in a single script.

There are two ways to fix this: rewrite the verb and write the upstream logic. It makes the most sense to fix the file.modified verb first and the upstreaming logic second. The verb is used by so much in so many places that it makes it a scary prospect (benefit vs. risk) to change.