[Design] Chandler in space

[hank williams]

Thanks. Very helpful indeed.

On 6/16/06, Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:50 PM, hank williams wrote:
>
> > If I may ask, where is the greatest source of the performance issue?
> > Is python compiled, or interpreted, or compiled to a VM? Are there
> > algorithmic issues such as perhaps data retrieval in the repository?
>
> Python is bytecode interpreted (but not JIT'ed) , but I don't know
> that all (or even a substantial portion) of the blame can be laid
> there.   If you talk to different people you will get different
> answers about the source(s) of our problems.
>
> If you're interested in our performance efforts I'd suggest the
> following resources:
>
> 1. This message <http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-
> dev/2006-June/006130.html> will get you access to the monitoring we
> are doing on performance, which will give you a view into our current
> status.   There are some very disturbing lines on some of the graphs
> -- places where Mac time go way up, while lines for the other
> platforms remain flat.
>
> 2. This page <http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/
> PerformanceProject> shows you the areas we are currently focusing on,
> what the times are on the test platforms, and our performance target
> goals.   The page includes a description of the target hardware,
> which is significantly slower than any Intel Mac.
>
> 3.  The best venue for following performance work is the chandler-dev
> mailing list.
>
> To reiterate Katie's point, we are very concerned about the
> performance of the system.   Those of us using the system on a daily
> basis are *painfully aware* of how far we have to go.
>
> Ted
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