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

Dave Winer dave at userland.com
Thu Feb 21 15:30:50 PST 2002


Seth, that's roughly what it will take, a burn-in period where bugs can be
fixed and lots of smart people are working without speeches, expecting
problems, and helping us work them out. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Dillingham" <seth at macrobyte.net>
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: ui/performance issues vs. stability (was: editing long strings)


> 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.
>





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