Richard Smith As far as i can see the way you built your version makes optimal use to TW5's love of fragments for purpose (i.e. the fundamental verse units). That is reflected in the performance.
Josiah On Sunday, 5 June 2016 13:10:15 UTC+2, Richard Smith wrote: > > It's true that the file gets bigger, obviously, but the main point of my > test was to assess how much it slows down by with a large structured text > and the answer is 'not much' - the document I compiled had around 23,000 > tiddlers and was quite useable. There are some exceptions to that. > > Part of the issue that we face in discussing what tiddlywiki can do and > what it should do is the difference between how the core works and how the > UI can be made to work. The way I think of it is that TW is a tool for > making tools, so the user-requirements of someone like Marc are interesting > to me because they help me to think about the kind of tools I might make. > > When the file size grows, you are actually getting something for your > megabytes - even though the document doesn't contain any more content, it > does contain more information, obviously, about the way the content is > structured. I suppose it's like the difference between the size of a file > in an an image editor like GIMP, which might be ten times or more the size > of the exported image, because it contains much more information than just > what colour each pixel is, even though that's all anyone will ever see > directly. > > Anyway, file-size itself isn't much of a concern for digital documents - > the real potential overhead in having so many tiddlers is one of increased > cognitive load in dealing with them all. If we can hide the complexity, > then I'm confident that the benefits of the 'philosophy of tiddlers' will > be evident. With the Bible, for example it's only by splitting the text up > into individual verses that we can 'tell' the computer what constitutes a > verse and it can infer much more (how many verses, arranged how, verses > containing a particular word etc.) > > Regards, > Richard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fec1c90a-43fd-400f-bf6f-8e173eb14328%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
