Ryan and Mark,

It might be worthwhile posting up a new page on the wiki with known 
counts for various Exhibits.  I think the ant one I looked at recently 
was about 650 records, as is my semantic tools one [1] (but it also has 
thumbnails, which slows presentation).

As far as I know, these are the two largest, but perhaps there are some 
other big ones that have not yet been documented on this list (or that I 
overlooked).

In any event, a wiki page with some examples might help others to look 
at the variety being deployed (format, size, facets, images, etc.) and 
then determine for their own circumstances what a "good" sizing number 
might be.

Mike

[1] http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=325

Ryan Lee wrote:
> As Robert notes, finding a hard limit is probably infeasible given the 
> nature of the web and browsers.  However, in terms of orders of 
> magnitude, we have a general perception that 1,000 is a killjoy, a few 
> hundred can be nice, and the ground between depends on your computer's 
> specs.  There's nothing formal behind that breakdown, and other 
> anecdotal experiences are welcome to help flesh out a more useful picture.
> 
> Robert Forkel wrote:
>> i doubt there could be really comprehensive testing of this issue,
>> because the environment it depends on - javascript in browsers - is
>> too varied. even in the case of firefox 2.0.x, which i am using, it
>> depends on the number and kind of installed plugins, the number of
>> opened tabs, the time the browser has been running, ...
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2007 7:53 PM, Mark Feblowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Has anyone done any testing to see whether/how/where exhibit
>>> performance degrades as the number of items or the total size of the
>>> exhibits grows? This could be very valuable in deciding whether/how
>>> to use exhibit.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
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