[Dev] Interationalization Schema Update
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Jul 21 12:19:23 PDT 2005
At 12:02 PM 7/21/2005 -0700, Alec Flett wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>So, it may be that if "eager" typechecking were just done for value
>>attributes, it would have no net performance impact in practice, because
>>only one check would be occurring whether it's done at assignment time or
>>commit time.
>except that commits often happen after all the changes happen - meaning
>that they don't interfere with updating of the UI. So while the net time
>on the clock might be the same from the beginning to the end of a given
>set of tasks, the perceived time might be much quicker if the commit
>happens later.
But that's what I meant by "on the critical path". Something that happens
while the user is waiting for it is on the critical path.
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