Reason enough to push another beta then.
On Jul 16, 3:31 pm, Sudhir <[email protected]> wrote:
> I updated to 0.5.1 beta but the issue of slow response remains. It's
> taking a while after inputting the first few characters. Even clearing
> the commands already typed takes a bit of time. Another thing that I
> have noticed is that the time lag occurs mainly when inputting
> something that's not a command. This may be something to do with the
> parser.
>
> On Jul 17, 12:43 am, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)"
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We weren't sure whether it would get picked up properly by the update
> > mechanism as a beta after 0.5... we're pretty sure that's working
> > right now, so if we release another beta (which I think we may, later
> > today) we'll call it something like 0.5.1pre2.
>
> > m
>
> > > Mitcho I must ask why couldn't it have been named 0.5.1beta?
>
> > > On Jul 15, 7:17 pm, mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> > > <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >> We've pushed a new 0.5.1 beta which should improve general parser
> > >> performance as well as help with the flickering issue. You can get
> > >> this beta here:
>
> > >>http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/xpi/ubiquity-latest-beta.xpi
>
> > >> (Note: for techinical reasons it's called 0.5pre7.)
>
> > >> I would love to know if this helps improves the behavior.
>
> > >> mitcho, Labs
>
> > >> On Jul 14, 4:47 pm, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)"
> > >> <[email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
>
> > >>> We're actively working on these issues for 0.5.1. If you get
> > >>> Ubiquity
> > >>> from the hg repository [1] you can already try out some changes
> > >>> which
> > >>> may help both the performance and flickering you mention.
>
> > >>> [1]https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Development_Tutorial
> > >>> #Getting_Set_Up
>
> > >>> mitcho, Labs
>
> > >>>> It's still flashing on every keystroke and occasionally locking
> > >>>> up for
> > >>>> a few seconds even with the new parser turned off. It did that in
> > >>>> the
> > >>>> latest alpha as well, but not to the extent it does it now.
>
> > >>>> On Jul 14, 9:28 am, xero <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>>> I had to turn off Parser 2 in 0.5 as well. Typing causes the
> > >>>>> entire
> > >>>>> Ubiquity dialog to flash on almost every letter. Sometimes it gets
> > >>>>> locked up and doesn't recognize that I typed anything, but of
> > >>>>> course
> > >>>>> only in the middle of what I was typing. The parser occasionally
> > >>>>> just
> > >>>>> decides that the command no longer matches when typing its
> > >>>>> arguments.
> > >>>>> I'm hoping the bugs and performance issues get worked out
> > >>>>> because I
> > >>>>> love Ubiquity, but right now it's not even usable.
>
> > >>>>> On Jul 12, 7:44 pm, Bhagwad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>>>>> I've turned off the "Use Parser 2 (the next generation parser)"
> > >>>>>> setting in the Ubiquity preferences page and now the speed is
> > >>>>>> back
> > >>>>>> to
> > >>>>>> normal.
>
> > >>>>>> On Jul 11, 10:16 am, Bhagwad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>>>>>> Any way I can help out? Need me to do some tests? Just ask
>
> > >>>>>>> Bhagwad
>
> > >>>>>>> On Jul 11, 9:12 am, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)"
> > >>>>>>> <[email protected]>
> > >>>>>>> wrote:
>
> > >>>>>>>> Some of the new features in Parser 2, particularly the new
> > >>>>>>>> smart
> > >>>>>>>> argument-first suggestions, necessitates that the code be more
> > >>>>>>>> complex
> > >>>>>>>> than in previous Ubiquity releases. There are still some
> > >>>>>>>> areas I
> > >>>>>>>> believe we can continue optimizing the code, however, so this
> > >>>>>>>> work
> > >>>>>>>> will be ongoing.
>
> > >>>>>>>> In particular, Bhagwad, I currently believe we do have a bug
> > >>>>>>>> where
> > >>>>>>>> things take a long time on initial parses (like your first
> > >>>>>>>> letter
> > >>>>>>>> ones), which I'd like to look into.
>
> > >>>>>>>> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> > >>>>>>>> mitcho
>
> > >>>>>>>>> 2009/7/11 Bhagwad <[email protected]>:
>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Since updating Ubiquity to 0.5, the time taken for the
> > >>>>>>>>>> process
> > >>>>>>>>>> to
> > >>>>>>>>>> recognize the first few letters, highlight the command and
> > >>>>>>>>>> deliver a
> > >>>>>>>>>> local result (such as the "calculate" command) has slowed
> > >>>>>>>>>> down
> > >>>>>>>>>> tremendously.
>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Whereas initially it was milliseconds, it's now at least 2
> > >>>>>>>>>> seconds
> > >>>>>>>>>> long. Anyone else facing this problem? I'm using Ubuntu with
> > >>>>>>>>>> Firefox/
> > >>>>>>>>>> Shiretoko 3.5 . Let me boot into Windows and see if the same
> > >>>>>>>>>> problem
> > >>>>>>>>>> occurs.
>
> > >>>>>>>>> Yes, I noticed, too, that 0.5 is slower when it's processing
> > >>>>>>>>> my
> > >>>>>>>>> input.
> > >>>>>>>>> I use Shiretoko 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 and have better timing,
> > >>>>>>>>> much
> > >>>>>>>>> less
> > >>>>>>>>> than 2 seconds, but it's still noticeable, since I have and
> > >>>>>>>>> older
> > >>>>>>>>> version at work for comparison.
>
> > >>>>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>>>> Timur Izhbulatov —www.timka.org
>
> > >>>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>>> mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> > >>>>>>>> [email protected]http://mitcho.com/
> > >>>>>>>> linguist, coder, teacher
>
> > >>> --
> > >>> mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> > >>> [email protected]http://mitcho.com/
> > >>> linguist, coder, teacher
>
> > --
> > mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> > [email protected]http://mitcho.com/
> > linguist, coder, teacher
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