On 6/15/07, Vidar Falkenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So spreadsheet or JSON is not of major importance?
I think you should be able to try fairly easily by using your exhibit's "copy all" JSON exporter (at least I think that existed in 1.0 too), paste the result into a file and try loading that instead of your Google spreadsheet. I think the Google Spreadsheets JSON format wastes approximately half a kilobyte per row of data on format overhead, for being a slightly cumbersome translation of an Atom feed and for retaining its XML structure rather than keeping a tight focus around your data, as Exhibit JSON does. To please my curiosity, I benchmarked a basic data grid now. An optimal JSON representation of the data grid label B:1 C:1 A:2 B:2 C:2 A:3 B:3 C:3 is 63 bytes long. Ditto Exhibit JSON representation is 90 bytes long, and the Google Spreadsheets JSON variant was 2300 bytes long (there is some boilerplate overhead too). My guess is thus that you would save in the order of 100k download time for your 200-item exhibit by going to Exhibit JSON. -- / Johan Sundström, http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
