Below. On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Wesley Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 Totally. Look for new ways to make expensive things cheap. Look for ways to turn NP-complete linear! And never ever stop trying. Just don't put factorial complexity in my email client if you can avoid it:);):P > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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