[Catalyst] Catalyst test server response times.

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Jason Kohles wrote:
> 
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Ian Docherty wrote:
>>> I have moved (back) to using the built in Catalyst server for testing 
>>> purposes.
>>> It is frequently (but not always) taking 20 seconds or so to display 
>>> a page in my browser
>>> even though the timings reported by the Catalyst server are about 0.2 
>>> sec. so I know that
>>> it is not the Catalyst app that is causing the delay.
>>
>> Having read the other postings on this I wonder if you have a 
>> large-ish css or Javascript file being loaded.  I've noticed a bit of 
>> a delay when I was trying the Ext2.js examples from the Ext2 site.
 >
> This delay is related more to the complexity of the javascript than it's 
> size.  It's essentially the compile-time penalty of the library in use, 

Slap goes the hand to the forehead!  Of course I exclaim!

> ExtJS is one of the bigger ones that I've noticed it on, it can take 
> quite a while for it get loaded/decompressed/setup and ready to go.  
> It's much faster when using a release version rather than a testing 
> version, and there are tools that will let you build custom ExtJS 
> versions with just the features you are actually using included, so you 
> don't have to wait for initialization for features you aren't using.

Thanks.  I've been looking into ExtJS.  This will help a bunch.


Rod
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