On Tuesday 03 August 2010 12:17:42 Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Julian Edwards > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I guess the question is, does allmembers have to be a property? It > > sounds like it needs to be a method to me. > > Well, allmembers isn't the problem: its the other properties that are > the problem :). If we make them all into methods so that you have to > ask for them directly, then the API will be fast, but the equivalent > web page may still be slow if it actually has to call the methods > because of what its showing.
I get your point, but my point is that everything else is getting the data whether it wants it or not. This contributes to the overall slow-down of LP through increased database load. > Handwaving: I'd like to have a flexible way of saying "I need these > attributes (x, y,z) of the members of this collection > (some-GenericCollection-subclass)" and have all the needed related sql > expressions banged on automatically, then delivered as a result set of > the right objects, with those related things precached. > > Short term, doing what code does and manually decorating with a > caching object may be the only sane way forward - we can probably make > that pretty programmer efficient with some care; long term - well, see > the handwaving, and I have some BigPicture ideas about how we talk to > persistent storage etc which may be interesting to pursue, but not > until we've got the fundamentals pinned down: scalability, > responsiveness, transparency in our production environment. Looking forward to it! J _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
