IE8 application performs better in dev mode than under compiled mode

2014-07-10 Thread Corey Bishop
I have a complex web application that I have to get running under IE8 (no choice on this). I've been dogged by performance issues for weeks. The application runs really slow. I get the annoying Do you want to stop running this script? warnings. We've been optimizing for weeks and made some

Re: IE8 application performs better in dev mode than under compiled mode

2014-07-10 Thread Jens
I think the remaining compiler settings won't buy you a lot additional performance. The reason why the above settings cost you so much performance is that the generated JavaScript will be 2x+ the size than what it should be. Especially recordLineNumbers hurts as GWT will generate one extra line

Re: IE8 application performs better in dev mode than under compiled mode

2014-07-10 Thread Corey Bishop
I'll try those compiler settings and see if they help (and make sure they don't hurt). And loading a lot of JS/DOM for IE8 is my problem. I'm doing paging and progressive loading to alleviate the issue. With long running scripts, you can periodically check in with the main browser event loop

Re: IE8 application performs better in dev mode than under compiled mode

2014-07-10 Thread Corey Bishop
Also, I should note that I'm on GWT 2.5.1. We need to upgrade, but are a little too late in the cycle right now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Web Toolkit group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: IE8 application performs better in dev mode than under compiled mode

2014-07-10 Thread Jens
In the meantime though, I'm just frustrated by the fact that I get the performance I want when running in DEV mode, but not when it's compiled. I'd like to understand is happening in DEV mode that is different from compiled that improve performance. Ultimately, the GWT Plugin is serving

Re: IE8 application performs better in dev mode than under compiled mode

2014-07-10 Thread Corey Bishop
That makes sense. I wasn't sure exactly how the plugin worked and what javascript was actually running in the browser. On Thursday, July 10, 2014 1:13:09 PM UTC-7, Jens wrote: In the meantime though, I'm just frustrated by the fact that I get the performance I want when running in DEV mode,