On 12/15/2016 04:23 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:

> Obviously, it doesn't matter if you're rendering just few structures, but
> in a scenario where you might be downloading a hundred SMILES from a DB and
> displaying them on a grid in a browser, computing the 2D depictions on the
> fly, waiting 5 sec for a page refresh wouldn't be great.

Maybe not, but depending how the browser lays out the grid, it may take
5 seconds anyway.

My recommendation for that use case would be to pre-generate the images
and store the URLs in that database. Which is what we do here.

;)
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Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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