At 8:59 AM 5/15/1, Steve Drucker wrote:
> Once we removed XML as a transport mechanism and started relying
> on loadvariables, the average object shrank in byte-size by over
> 50% and load times, in one particular case (cascading menu), went
> from 8 seconds to under 2 seconds.
An URL-encoded data stream can have a smaller bytesize than an
XML-formatted stream of the same data, true.
I'm glad that the final implementation seems to have gone from having the
browser transfer the data, to having the Flash client request the data from
the server directly... seems like it would avoid all those browser
dependencies.
(For Evan, the big gotcha with XML in the Macromedia Flash Player 5 is to
do as much processing as you can on the server. Sometimes people try to
send long data streams down to the client for processing, and this means
you have download time, parsing time, and memory issues to consider. If you
can winnow down the data on the server, then that gives a lighter load for
the client to handle.)
jd
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