On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Stephen Haberman <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > Even Orkut closing the doors, it doesn't mean their code is going away > > anytime soon :) > > You're killing me, Goktug. The backwards compatibility knife had > already pierced my heart, and this just shimmied it around a bit. :-) > > The point was more about Orkut announcement doesn't change anything and cannot effect the decision from our perspective; as long as the system is running we need to take care of it. > I had to refresh on memory on PotentialElement, but it looks virtual > DOM-ish; making fake elements that are really pure JS objects, and then > later converting them into real DOM objects only as-needed. I believe > it sped up the first page load of Orkut by ...15%? or so. > > I also vaguely recall that, AFAIU, the pipe dream was to have the > entire initial DOM render be one huge .innerHTML=<blah>, since IE > really liked that. But making strings that big hurts the GC such that > (AFAIK) it's a wash in modern browsers to just making DOM elements > directly anyway. > > Speaking of PotentialElement, looking at commits from around that time > frame, there is also a change from Ray Ryan that turned > useLazyWidgetBuilders = true, with a commit message of "in prep for > deleting the old code". > > Looks like that deleting never happened...can we do that now? > > As with PotentialElement, I don't think useLazyWidgetBuilders had any > external design docs, discussion, etc., so I don't really know the > whole story on it. Or even little bits, other than I enjoy deleting old > code and will volunteer to do that if we can. > > - Stephen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/20140706220525.6ccc4472%40sh9 > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CAN%3DyUA2itF_dBO%3D8GpRmRgs0%3D2NfeBY1r%3Dhr2may347Hb9BQHg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
