Re: [Tracker] Roadmap to 0.7

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 10/07/09 14:04, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:47 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > I'm sure that if there are performance issues with Zeitgeist that the
> > Zeitgeist team will eventually optimize them out.
> >
> > For example, indeed, by reimplementing them in a more performing
> > programming language, or maybe even by implementing them as miner
> > plugins, SPARQL functions or code running in Tracker's processes.
> >
> > I don't believe that Zeitgeist performing badly will affect Tracker's
> > reputation.
>
> putting it in a more performant language wont help as its the
> architecture thats suspect
>
> Here is what is zeitgeist is intending to do so far as i see it:
>
>
> 1) Zeitgeist front end<->  dbus<->  Zeitgeist Daemon<->  dbus<->
> Tracker
>
> 2) Gnome apps<->  dbus<->  Zeitgeist Daemon<->  dbus<->  Tracker

Right but I think it is a bit premature to blame latency issues on DBus 
before we know what data is being requested. Also applications can cache 
some of this information if they have to, or do the querying at *more* 
appropriate times. Also the user won't mind waiting a fraction of a 
second for things like this in a user interface, they will mind:

 - 100% cpu
 - not indexing content properly
 - broken software

Etc. I.e. all the things tracker 0.6 was famous for. No one really 
mentioned the speed as much as the brokenness.

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Regards,
Martyn