[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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