+100000 Stef
Hi all,
I would like to ask you, all of you, something significant when doing GUI coding:
Pay attention to performance!
With the current state of our technology (Morphic, Bloc, whatever comes next) your target should be one hundred milliseconds (100 ms), for opening / redisplaying the widget.
Why?
- Because, in 10ms, Morphic can open and layout dozens of Morphs on a low-end machine (1.4GHz Celeron).
- Because most of you work on 3GHz+ i7 Macbook Pro (so, at 10x the cpu performance of that said Celeron).
- Because you are not to reproduce the past: that your current tools are slow is no excuse.
- Because you now have well designed core widgets (FT) that behaves in O(1) and opens fully loaded in 10's of milliseconds
So, profile and clean your code! Eliminate unneeded caches! Clean your architectures! Avoid or mark slow code and bottlenecks!
And bring numbers when you want to criticize the performance of a subsystem...
Thierry