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> GMail is fast. All the time. No matter how much mail you have. That's because it runs from a local database and all server interaction is abstracted behind sy
by traek 12y ago
> GMail is fast. All the time. No matter how much mail you have. That's because it runs from a local database and all server interaction is abstracted behind sync and local accesses to data.
I don't know about Android, but on iOS, the Gmail app is much slower to launch and navigate than the stock mail app. I think that, on launch, the Gmail app makes some requests before showing you any of even your locally cached data, which always struck me as poor design.
- rjvir 12y agoThat's also how the GMail website still acts, which confuses me as well. Why can Facebook load a complex web app instantly while GMail still shows a loading bar on launch?
- dekhn 12y agoactually, when you load facebook, it shows an interstitial which looks like a page of posts, but is really just a bunch of blocks carefully arranged, and it has nothing to do with the final load page.
- Chronic29 12y agoFacebook's final, populated load page still loads faster than Gmail.
- dekhn 12y agoHuh. I checked back a few times. It looks like facebook loads an interstitial with boxes, that actually corresponds to the layout of the page, but not the content. This includes sentence layout (the boxes cover the area that gets replaced with text, similar for images). Now I'm curious what's going on.