[Chandler-dev] Pre-loading items as a performance optimization

[Ted Leung]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> My thought was that if we could generate occurrences and/or load  
> relevant items from the next and previous weeks in the background  
> (Andi suggested OnIdle), that could save some time when the user  
> clicks the week navigation arrows.  Does anyone see any pitfalls in  
> this approach?  Is it possible to load items into the main  
> repository view from another thread?  Also, I would need some  
> guidance in determining exactly which items need to be pre-loaded.

I'm concerned that this optimization is specific to the week view,  
and that having item preloading happening in the background will  
acutally penalize the user if they are looking at  the dashboard not  
the week view.    As the app grows, the number of different paths  
through the UI will increase, which makes preloading harder, because  
there are more possible future paths to "predict".

Ted