On Nov 12, 2007 4:56 AM, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 12 Nov 2007, hank williams wrote: > > applications that may need to scale, of doing more work on the client, > is a > > good one. If you have lots of clients you can indeed save money on > server > > costs by having the clients help with the work. > > I'd still want to plumb for sending an operation, parameters and > list/range of > ids to the server though, as others have mentioned depending on what the > operations are it might take minutes on the client, and the user > experience > here could be bad. >
There are lots of "depending ons" here, but in general, there is nothing about flash or AS3 that makes processing data slow. In fact it can be quite fast. The issue is how to architect it on the client side. For example it probably doesnt make sense to load all this data into a datagrid. But it can still be on the client in stoage focused data structures. Really flash is entirely capable of loading and handling large datasets. Adobe has announced their desire to move all their apps to flex, and in general, I view flex as just as capable as a regular desktop development environment for which one would never say "oh you cant load all that data into excel" for example. Flex isnt as fast as C++ but it really is getting there and for most applications the speed difference doesnt matter. Just like today we do not hesitate to do stuff in java vs C++. The point is you can build highly performant client side apps in flex, and with things like AIR being introduced, we need to get comfortable with that idea. Hank > > -- > Tom Chiverton > Helping to apprehensively unleash B2C CEOs > on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com > > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England > and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address > is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is > available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a > partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. > Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and > may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you > must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it > nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its > existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please > delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
