Yes, of course, storing the images is an alternative.
-P.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
>
> ;)
> --
> Dimitri Maziuk
> Programmer/sysadmin
> BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
>
>
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