[sugar] perceived sugar performance
Tomeu Vizoso
tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Tue Apr 29 13:34:01 EDT 2008
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > We have a completely different approach to activity launching in the
> > > > works (I've been hacking it up myself...I need some help from the pros
> > > > to finish it!)
> > >
> > > Why are we building a splash screen instead of speeding up activity
> > > launch? We know that programs can put up full-screen windows in
> > > 0.1-0.5s.
> >
> > We cannot presume that _all_ activities will be able to put a window
> > in 0.1-0.5s, and probably don't want all the activity authors to
> > implement something like that.
> >
> > I see as a good thing to improve both feedback and launch performance.
>
> But if most of activities startup in ~ 1.5, switching context two
> times during this period might be excessive.
Might be, but I guess Eben doesn't want to switch context 2 times? I
imagine his placeholder window as a transition from the shell to the
activity window, right?
Tomeu
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