On 03/06/2013, at 11:02 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, this type of behavior adapted to Scope is fine on a desktop or
> even a netbook or most tablets. But it's unacceptable for a truly low-powered
> device.
I guess we need to have some sort of implementation with which to try this out
with. I remember that trying to create a cLucene search index on my old iPhone
3G was sufficiently silly that I removed that functionality in PS. But I needed
to test it to confirm that it was a stupid idea to allow users to attempt it.
(I would say the same for BibleTime mini & say that 2.5hrs is way too long to
even suggest a user plug in their phone and run it overnight! But that's just
my sanity shining through, and I'll resume my insanity in a moment)...
My thoughts about this entire subject are: let's attempt to do this
programmatically and not have Scope or anything else like that in the conf
file. Having seen the number of emails to this list from module makers who have
issues with properly forming conf files, I think the easier we make it for
them, the better! :) :)
So, give it a go. No point arguing about whether it'll be fast enough or not at
this point. Try it. We can always only use that functionality on desktop
front-ends? Alternatively, people have suggested caching the results and the
like. I do that for caching a listing of entries in dictionaries and it works
pretty well... :)
And this is coming from a developer who only writes code for "truly low-powered
devices"... And on that note, I'm about to pull a feature from my latest beta
cause it's too processor intensive on phones, even though it works great on my
own model of iPhone. :)
just my random thoughts... :)
Thanks, ybic
nic... :)
ps: the problem with my entire argument is that someone actually needs to write
the code for this to happen. ;) It's not looking like I'll have time in the
near future, so I'll leave it to others... :D And on that topic, I have a 2nd
job interview tomorrow for a cool job (down to the final 2 applicants!) if
anyone's able to quickly pray for it? :) :)_______________________________________________
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