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Re: brainstorm: cheaper API collection iteration

 

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Leonard Richardson
<leonard.richardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> I did a quick search of Launchpad for references to ws.start and ws.size. It
> shows up a lot in tests, but that's about it. In particular, it doesn't seem
> to be used in the Javascript code (though client.js has support for it). I
> did see some batch navigation code in picker.js. It looks like Launchpad
> code, not web service code, but it may have to be changed for the same
> reasons as the web service needs to be changed.

awesome, thanks!

I think its ok to leave that optimisation in - most folk will iterate,
and deciding to disable indexed jumping is a larger discussion - we've
enough immediate work that will befit by fixing the common case that i
feel no urge to make the problem bigger than it is already :)

-Rob



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