On Friday 27 April 2007 11:28:07 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2007-04-27 at 09:49 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:

>
> > Automatically based on cpu power, memory and network ?
> > Configurable by user ?
> > Based on size of package ?
> > ...
>
> Al of them... automatically based on cpu, memory, network, and size of
> package, plus user configuration. A triffle.
>
> I don't know. Perhaps some thing that, based on previous assumptions
> guestimates how long will it take on each road, and decide. The
> calculation will depend a lot on each particular machine setup, so it's
> doubtfull it can be acurately calculated, so perhaps best thing is to base
> decisions on data from previous sessions. And unless that data is feedback
> to you, you want be able to initialize the functions properly - but that
> opens another problem, because people is sensitive to to data gathering.
>
> Or from user configuration altogether.
>
> A user on an expensive network will probably want deltas all the time, and
> one on a cheap, big pipe will prefer big packagaes in full.
>
> It's not simple to calculate...

Maybe some sort of score for the machine, a la Windows Vista? :)  A measure of 
the system performance and profile based on a set of criteria.  This could 
also be used elsewhere in deciding whether XGL should be enabled etc.

Cheers

Pete




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