31 Dec
2009
31 Dec
'09
10:30 a.m.
On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
This is an interactive action that most likely won't be used in batch mode thousands of times, so as long as it takes less than 50ms, it is practically instantaneous to the user. In such a situation, performance should take a back seat to clarity and maintainability.
Actually, it's even better than that.
Standard usability holds that 100ms is the threshold for users noticing an operation.
For scripting that might also hold to at least as good. That is, if we have it so fast that a user won't notice, then running in a script will probably be acceptable as well. Of course, for that we really need data on ranges of complexity, power of machine, etc. that might be encountered.