well...
actual, that well known knowledge is little not that well known.
as logic says and as there are no real evidence to proof otherwise, I don't think it actually does that.

kixtart readprofilestring is just an export of:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getprivateprofilestring.asp

and basically...
well, the function basically just opens the file and scans it for what you ask.
when you don't specify section, it is forced to obviously read the whole file.
but otherwise, I don't think it does that.

way or the other, for some purposes and types of uses, this type of large ini file is loooooot more efficient than any database or similar thingie.
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