Hi, Mimi
Comments inline ...
--Grant
On 9 Jul, 2008, at 05:17, Mimi Yin wrote:
I know it's the 11th hour to bring up this kind of thing, but
Keith's suggestion reminded of a different "performance-improvement"
hack we discussed pre-Preview: to limit the amount of "legacy"
calendar data we import and get rid of anything "older than a year".
So there are 3 things we might be able to do to alleviate
performance pain:
1. Replace weekly auto-purge with auto-export/reload. (Would this
actually help?)
Probably. In a way, auto-export/reload is like a more thorough auto-
purge (but I believe it runs faster ;). There is some cached sharing
data we lose on export/reload, so potentially there might be
regressions introduced there. Personally, I export/reload more
frequently than most people, and I haven't noticed anything
particularly untoward.
2. Auto-archive anything that was triaged to DONE more than 1 year??
ago
- The simplest way to do this might be to take a snapshot of your
data, export it to an Archive.chex file that is timestamped so that
if you ever need it, you can always reload it into Chandler to take
a look at it.
- We could eventually add a File menu item that allowed you to
switch easily between archived data sets and your current data set.
(Sort of like the way Andi's repo-switch feature worked.)
Sure, this is possible, and not too difficult, though I'm not sure you
want Archive.chex files piling up automatically.
3. Discard anything older than 1 year
Of course, all of these things would be optional (except for maybe
#1) accompanied by an explanation that if you feel like Chandler is
getting sluggish, you should do them.
This is technically possible, but I believe it would take several days
to debug and test.
****
I'm loathe to start up a conversation about more features at this
point in the process, but given the feedback we've received on
performance, does 1.0 need to demonstrate some concrete progress on
performance since Preview? Would the above fixes help the people who
are feeling performance pain today? Or are they not likely to
improve the situation by very much?
This is the $1,000,000 dollar question, eh. Sounds as if you asked the
audience :).
--Grant
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