[Design] [D/f] pycon dogfood feedback

[Ted Leung]

Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
> + Chandler's performance is the biggest obstacle to my daily use (on a 
> mac). In particular, switching calendars, moving from week to day mode 
> and overlaying calendars is too slow. Ban the beach ball!
I'd second this.  It's not just the desktop performance, though.  I got 
back from ETech and tried to sync my work calendar and Katie's work 
calendar, and it was painfully slow.  My Chandler is running under Linux 
on an AMD64 3500, which is a very fast machine.  I am also on a very 
fast DSL connection, so I don't think that the environment (hardware, 
network) is the problem.

One other thing that I observed was that after I first setup to dogfood 
(create several calendars, import 2 calendars, share 1 calendar), 
Chandler's virtual memory image was around 1 Gb of RAM.
Perhaps we also need to be thinking about RAM footprint targets.

Ted