Nick - Thanks for your reply - i agree with that. In honest i started coding in 1978 and building code that runs fast is what i grew up on - in those days it was cycles too, when we built games we had to made the code run in the time it took the TV set to go from the bottom of the screen and back again to the top - i think it was about 50cycles.In those days every single command and sum counted. We'd spend hours speeding up code. If you were super cool you would make your code run in the time it took the raster to leave the right side of the screen and enter the left.That's how we made 8 space invaders make 64. I like the idea of building fast code - its something microsoft stole from the art of programming. Perhaps those days are back again. I just hope my new app when i launch it runs at all - maybe my programing skills will be put to shame when i start getting hundreds of requests per second. Then again maybe the tricks i learnt as a kid may come in handy again.
Thanks again for your reply - im feeling quite excited now! Martin Webb Hi Martin, Writing efficient apps doesn't have to be efficient or difficult - it just takes experience. Further, if you don't expect your app to scale to hundreds of requests per second, you may not have to worry about efficiency a great deal - and if you do care about that, then you'd have to worry about efficiency whatever platform you were running on. We don't have a magic way to make apps scale indefinitely if they don't have a certain degree of efficiency to begin with - hence why you need to be prepared to invest at least a little time into optimisation if you want your app to run on any platform. -Nick Johnson On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Martin Webb <[email protected]> wrote: I think on this point one should also consider that whilst the mighty google can afford to invest time and money in building apps that run lightning quik. sadly most of us developers dont have the huge man power technology and needed cash to do the same. Google should remember that we are developers and most of us are developing for $nothing$. in hope that our ideas may reap reward. on that basis we have to all consider how much time we spend investing in lightning fast code - against getting the idea out their and get users. One of the key selling points of app engine is its platform and ability to do just that. Something that restrictions on code execution times and added costs will affect. > > > > > > >Martin Webb > > >The information contained in this email is confidential and may contain >proprietary information. It is meant solely for the intended recipient. Access >to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended >recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or >omitted >in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. No liability or >responsibility is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason >corrupted or does not reach its intended recipient. No warranty is given that >this email is free of viruses. The views expressed in this email are, unless >otherwise stated, those of the author > > > > > > -- > >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Google App Engine" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
