[L2Ork-dev] Exalibur bug #2: patch loading speed

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:50 AM Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm afraid that I have not much to contribute to this discussion, except that I wouldn't consider such monster patches good practice anyway. Alas, that doesn't make the dragon go away. Does that patch load quicker in browser-based Purr? (If it loads at all; I must admit that I haven't closely followed Zack's progress lately.)

Honestly, it didn't occur to me to test with the web app. I'll have a look.

-Jonathan

>
> Albert
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:06 PM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> Seemingly simple question: let's suppose you open a "monster patch"
>> with lots of objects, iemgui GUIs, and comments on it.
>>
>> It takes substantially longer for nw.js to display the canvas than it
>> does for tk or tkpath to display it in Vanilla/Pd-l2ork 1.0.
>>
>> Question: what is nw.js spending the bulk of its time doing when
>> loading the patch?
>>
>> Hint-- I've tested a "monster patch" that took about 20 seconds on an
>> underpowered machine to display. Then I took the innerHTML of the page
>> and saved it as a separate web page. If I opened that as the main page
>> for a simple nw.js test app, it would display in less than a second.
>>
>> In other words-- the problem is *not* the number of DOM elements being
>> displayed. Because that was exactly the same in my 1-second test app
>> and Purr Data's 20-second "monster patch."
>>
>> My guess-- layout thrashing per DOM element being added from
>> backend->GUI. But I haven't measured that to be true. Worse, I tried
>> using requestAnimationFrame and it didn't solve the problem.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jonathan
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