Boris Zbarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ...
> Bryan W. Taylor wrote:

> > Performance of the entire information flow imporves when we move XML 
> > tasks to the client to avoid network round-trips and distribute processing
> 
> Very admirable use of "performance" to refer to two totally different things 
> here.  I can't quite recall whether this was in that nice list of "common 
> logical fallacies" I was taught in high school, but if it wasn't it 
> should be added.

I have no idea what you are talking about. "Performance" concerns the
efficiency of the use of any particular resource. In any system there
will be many resources of interest and the utilization profile of each
can be a measure of performance for the overall system.

There is no logical fallacy in considering the performance of data
entry throughput (which degrades as needless server round trips occur)
along with middle tier server capacity (which degrades when CPU,
memory, and IO are taxed with needless processing that can be placed
in the client tier). Both are valid aspects of the performance of the
total system.

If your enterprise app sucks at one or the other, you are wasting
money. A lot of enterprise systems are wasting money.
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