Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Luis Villa" <luis AT tieguy.org>]

On 1/23/07, Nathan R. Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Luis Villa wrote:
> > It does not fix the performance problem, for what it is worth. I've
> > just done a number of re-installs/re-loads and am still seeing the
> > slow load time. I also noted that I'm seeing a complete firefox UI
> > freeze while the page is loading.
>
> I had a brief email exchange with Michael Kaply (of Operator fame)
> yesterday afternoon and he reported a bug, which I've fixed.  I think
> that a side effect of this is that there will be fewer passes made on
> pages.  I also changed the way that page processing is dispatched to
> create fewer threads (I'm not sure where the thread overhead v.
> performance gains really "break even").  You can download the new
> version at
> http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/mozcc/download/mozcc-2.3.9.2.xpi.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing how performance compares to the previous
> release, as well as if the performance is any different between loading
>   a page for the first time v. re-loading the page.

Still seems to be slower, but much less so. Am leaving it on for now
and will report further observations.

Luis