Refactoring is your friend / moving from 6.x to 9.x

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Jan 4 02:56:04 EST 2019


Geoff Canyon wrote:

 > I wasn't sure what people were talking about with lock screen
 > performance issues, so I did a simple test
...
 > ...and found that in 6.7.3 that change increased the duration to about
 > 1.25 seconds -- a performance hit of about 30x just because a locked-
 > screen button is actually moving. In 9.0.1, the time changed to about
 > 0.35 seconds. So if the button *isn't* moving, 6.7.3 is much faster,
 > but in the more practical and likely case that the button *is* moving,
 > 9.0.1 is faster. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That seems a good balance of priorities by use case.  After all, when 
nothing's moving the wait time may not even be noticeable, but with 
moving objects performance can be critical.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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