+1 to Marc's comment as well, that was posted while I was writing mine. -walter
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am steadfast in the opinion that stability and predictability are > much more important goals for 8.2 than trying to make significant > speed improvements. Also, do you know what build Miguel was basing his > assessment on? > > -walter > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I just got word from a decision maker in Uruguay that they are very >> concerned about "performance". They say that Sugar is slow. I'm probing >> to get more details but I want to evaluate the options in parallel. >> >> Focus is on improving this in 8.2.0. >> >> Here are the areas I can think of: >> - Activity launch time >> I know we had some threads on this but I don't know where we stand. Can >> I get an update and an evaluation of what it will take to greatly >> improve this? >> >> - File/activity open >> Can we improve this? A piece of the latency here may be due to a large >> Journal being much slower. Can we "chunk" journal reads or otherwise >> improve the speed of opening files? Can we speed up journal access in >> its own GUI too? >> >> - File save >> What is the bottle neck on save? Let's create a test case for this. >> >> - Task switching >> I've seen some threads on this. Can someone summarize it and give me a >> hard number to show how we have improved? >> >> - Activity or main GUI responsiveness to cursor >> It seems to me that the activities are a little slow. e.g. when I try to >> draw a line in paint, it takes a little while (maybe 100s of ms but >> noticeable) for the line to show on the screen. Similar with cursor >> placement in write or in the journal/home. Has anyone else noticed that? >> Is that due to CPU cycles or screen refresh or something else? >> >> - Hardware >> Can anyone evaluate how much faster it would be with twice the RAM? Is >> the NAND slowing us down? >> >> This may cost us significantly if we don't show improvement. Send me >> ideas. Any quick wins would be considered, even if they have a downside >> in another metric. >> >> I'll come back with more details on their specific concerns as soon as I >> get it. >> >> BTW this was raised by the kids in their blog several months ago. See >> the first link here: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Unadorned_and_unedited_user_feedback >> >> Thanks, >> >> Greg S >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> Sugar@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar