A revamped version of the KDE2 I/O library, KIO, is now in the CVS kdelibs module. KIO is what allows KDE applications to be so easily made internet transparent and features such things as fast mimetype handling and associations, background processing of I/O, and the capability to do many different operations on URLs just as easily as one would use local files such as reading, writing, copying, and moving.

The new version mostly features an API cleanup and rather massive speed improvements for all protocols. For many common operations such as local directory parsing a minimum 5x (yes, that's times ;-) speed improvement is gained with the new scheme. Konqueror is *very* fast now :)

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