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Wasn't this the initial reason gmail was designed? It had a small footprint and wasn't a performance hog which made it fast, responsive and easy to use? I've r
by at-fates-hands 8y ago
Wasn't this the initial reason gmail was designed? It had a small footprint and wasn't a performance hog which made it fast, responsive and easy to use?
I've read lately Inbox is probably going away after the recent gmail redesign which is incorporating some of Inbox's features.
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- paulddraper 8y agoGmail's innovation was being a high quality web based email client. It wasn't necessarily "fast" compared to a native client but was optimized enough to run in slow browsers. And with crazy optimizations too. IE6 has bad memory performance for for-in loops. So instead it implement custom key-value structures https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closure/goog/structs/map.js#L51 https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closur...