On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Ian Eslick <esl...@media.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi John, > > Your mileage may vary, but I'm really not concerned about users > causing significant performance degradation by doing lots of null > edits. If that is happening, it's probably a user interface design > problem. The trivial solution is to write a jscript function that > sets a hidden input value if the contents of any of the inputs are > changed. You can inhibit the POST entirely if that's the case, or > allow the server to skip processing it. This should cut out a huge % > of your overall null edits (if you don't have some weird community > with a high percentage of no-javascript users) and it's only a few > lines of code. Agree. Maybe I can just compare the values of the POST variables against the slot values and if anything changed, then proceed with the update/transaction. I'm not too much of a fan on relying on javascript for that type of validation since people can "hack" that easily (don't ask... it will be a public application so you never know what type of users we'll get) We should all be so lucky as to blow out a single server! If you have > that much traffic, you can usually afford some reworking to scale if > your application is amenable to it. Often you can get pretty far just > by doing some optimizations, offloading static file to a second > server, smart caching, some restructuring and performance > optimizations, transaction tuning, etc. There is almost always room > for significant optimization in a new system. Correct. And that's why premature optimization is almost always more of a waste of time. I was only being a dreamer and imagining that our application will revolutionize the Internet and will blow the sucks off Facebook :D > Check out the elephant-devel mailing list, associations are described > several times there. I also provided an example in a recent e-mail. > > The API is straightforward so between the new metaclass slot initargs > (src/elephant/metaclass.lisp) and the association interface (src/ > elephant/associations.lisp) you should be able to work with them. > > Regards, > Ian Thank you again. Will do. Best regards, JD
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