> Some things are just expensive. No one has found an acceptable solution. > These are things we should avoid in the infrastructure underneath a personal > computing experience:)
Or figure out how to amortize them over time. I think recent raytracing apps are a good example of this. You can preview the image as it is rendered to see if it's just right and if not, tweak it. Another example is scraping data to build a database that will inform autocompletion and other productivity enhancing UI effects. Sometimes gather and parsing out the data to put in the database can be expensive, but it can easily be done in a background thread without any cost to responsiveness. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples. wes _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
