I'm currently at 663 events with a map and timeline on my exhibit: http://www.uss-king.com/TimeLine.shtml
My JSON file is a little over 230 KB. IE7 takes about 25 to 30 seconds to load and execute on broadband. It isn't much quicker run on my local machine (in fact, I'm not sure it's any faster), so the code execution seems to be where the slow down occurs. Firefox (2.0.0.9 with no plug-ins) loads and executes in about 8 to 10 seconds. After it all loads, navigation is pretty quick although it takes IE7 about 20 seconds to reset the filters (about 5 seconds for FireFox). Given the amount of information and the difficulty involved in presenting it in other ways, I can live with these execution times for my project, although I would love to see it run faster. Mark D. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Lee Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:02 PM To: General List Subject: Re: Questions on exhibit capacity and performance 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 -- Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIT CSAIL Research Staff http://simile.mit.edu/ http://people.csail.mit.edu/ryanlee/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
