[Dev] Performance update

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Most excellent.

I agree, we've hit "acceptable" for scrolling -- we should close this 
bug and move on to higer priority bugs.

Cheers,
Katie

Alec Flett wrote:
> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> 
>>Scrolling the 3000 event
>>calendar is under acceptable limits on Windows and Linux, and really
>>close to the limit on Mac (might go under with alecf's latest changes -
>>we'll see).
>>
>>  
>>
> It did - we dropped another 10%! It says "0.10s" on the performance 
> page, though its outlined in orange - I assume that means its really 
> something like 0.104s? Or maybe, since python's floating point math can 
> be pretty nuts, its more like 0.10392893598724s. Can we just round, 
> rather than truncate when doing our coloring? :)
> 
> I'm reaching a point with the calendar where I'm going to need to do 
> some serious rearchitecture to get any more performance gains - I mean I 
> can eek out 1-3% here and there, but anything significant (8% or higher, 
> I'd say) is going to require changes that are too risky for 0.6.
> 
> Alec
> 
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