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Is this some sort of competition to see how many redundant layered of abstraction we can add before the user starts to wonder why the responsiveness of the app

• samwillis 4y ago
  The strange thing is that AbsurdSQL appears to be 10x more performant than IndexedDB: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql#performance https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql#performance (from memory the was some discussion that it wasn't a completely fair comparison, but even so was still more performant)
• robocat 4y ago
  Ironically, latency was far better in 1987 for plenty of users, even though you are implying it was worse. https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ I would like to see latency figures for the dominant spreadsheet on the average computer over the years though, starting with VisiCalc on Apple ][.
• loxias 4y ago
  > responsiveness of the app has dropped to 1987 levels? Donno about 1987, but everything I do other than locally develop code with emacs has a responsiveness far worse than I remember from 1997. Everything has to load some stupid javascript, everything has a delayed reaction to each click or scroll. Nothing just runs or just works anymore. The cost of a lower barrier to entry for "software" development. :/
  • edgyquant 4y ago
    You and I remember ‘97 quite differently. It took 5-10 minutes to download .txt guides to video games (in 99 I downloaded ocarina of times walkthrough and that thing was a monster!) Hell I remember waiting almost an hour to download the Spider-Man 2 trailer in 2002. Meanwhile now I’m watching 1080p YouTube videos while running my entire dev environment locally (database, front and backend + code editor) and still it takes a second at the most to load 99% of pages.