ui/performance issues vs. stability (was: editing long strings)

[Seth Dillingham]

On 2/21/02, Dave Winer said:

>Fixes in the UI could conceivably compromise the reliability of the
>server.

I agree with you. I prefer improved stability over an improved UI.

However, I'd be willing to risk some stability on *my* development
machines, during a Frontier beta period, if it meant we could have
big,low-level performance improvements.

Even if it took months to work out the stability and back-compatibility
issues. That's what beta periods are for.

That's just me and my machines, though. If UserLand thinks I'm wrong, or
that the problems would be worse than I'm imagining, I'll take their word
for it. I don't know Frontier's kernel very well. :-)

Seth

P.S. I'm more concerned with performance than UI issues because the amount
of data that we're processing through Frontier seems to be increasing
faster than processor and I/O speeds.