Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Yab / MaxUpdater Testing performance

Yab amazed me today.

I tried to get MaxUpdater to show an extremely large number of applications and dynamically create tabs, views, checkboxes after reading a text file with the info needed.

What was the result? Well, not only did it do it for 800 applications, but it took only 14 seconds, when I was told that just reading a file of that size would take a lot longer. However that wasn't what amazed me. It was the fact that dynamically creating the 800 views (1 view per application) didn't take more than a few milliseconds and only raised the usage of memory by 1/7th (from 7500kb to 8600kb) !!!

This is cool. Hope I have enough time this weekend to get further along with the MaxUpdater. Next step is to do a real update/install of an app from the Internet repository. So keep watching this blog for more news of progress.

The mandatory screenshot.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Although I cannot run BeOS at this present time on my hardware (on a Turion x2 laptop with nVidia 430 chipset and GeForce 6100 Go video card it won't start, although I used several boot disks), I won't hesitate to run it in VMWare. I have my history with BeOS Max Ed. (I remember the times I was waiting for the 3rd version of your distro...)

I love the spirit you've put in your projects. I have about BeOS the same feelings that you do, but I don't have the means to help the community. So, encouraging you should do it, at least for this moment.

Keep up the good work, Vassilis (Vasile, in Romanian ;-) )!!

Unknown said...

Vasper. Thanks for you work with the Beos Max V4, i read your blog all days for news, but nothing hapen for last 15 days.
Thanks Vasper from Chile.