Re: [gnome-love] yelp [was: is this list active?]

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 09:21, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Shaun McCance wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 08:50, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > OK, now that we've established that the list is active, I have a
> > > question.  I'm wondering, what are the plans for yelp? ...
> >
> > If you subscribed to gnome-love@ because you're looking for something in
> > GNOME to work on, then you've just asked exactly the right question.
> >
> > I took over Yelp maintainership a couple of months ago, and I've been
> > very busy reworking the entire transformation system...
>
> > http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/yelp/
>
> Ah, that looks very promising.  I'm afraid I'm too busy with my own
> app to work on yelp, but from a position of complete ignorance I
> wonder: Is it worth thinking about some sort of mechanism for caching
> "compiled" helpfiles?  (M$ .chtml files do come up nice and quickly.)

Caching is easy to do poorly, and impossible to do well.  If I thought
it was worth doing poorly, I'd do it.  But I don't.  I can't give you
any hard numbers right now on how fast the new transformation stuff is,
but the word "instantaneous" is a pretty good description.

--
Shaun