Re: simplelist speed

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 4, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Dan Espen wrote:

> Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:57, Dan Espen wrote:
> > > If I disable the cell data func, its faster but not by much, maybe 
> > > 20%.
> >
> > i would guess the slowdown is due to the ties that create 
> > SimpleLists, but i'm not certain.

For some reason, that totally slipped my mind.  But would a tie really 
be *that* slow?

> > if that's the case the solution is not to use simple list.

I would've said that anyway -- what you're doing is no longer Simple.  
;-)


> I ran thru some of the examples, most of them exhibit the pointer 
> movement issue, which isn't a big problem for me, it just doesn't seem 
> right.  If you run one of these things over a network, it causes a 
> packet storm.
>
> None of them had the slow refresh issue, but none of them have 31x11 
> cells either.

I just slapped together a quick test using a SimpleList with 13 columns 
and 150 rows (trivial data, "<span color=\"red\">$_</span", where $_ is 
the row number), and ran it on my linux server, displaying on my 
wireless powerbook.  It wasn't noticeably slow, nor noticeably slower 
than running directly on the laptop, but i can't see the network 
traffic lights from here, either.  ;-)

Oh, and the machines are 3 and 1 GHz, respectively, so it's not exactly 
a fair comparison.  :-/

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