Re: Hacker's Fate
Re: Hacker's Fate
- Subject: Re: Hacker's Fate
- From: Robert Goldsmith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:11:42 +0000
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Both Scott and his father have had difficulties with iPhoto and
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iTunes scaling up to the use they want.
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I would suggest the two scaling problems are not to do with anything
inherently ObjC.
Taking iTunes first, the entire library seems to be stored in a
flat-file. I would suggest it is not much better when held in memory.
The problem is how the data is stored - quite correctly, Scott pointed
out that databases can do this no problem but iTunes is NOT a database
and has chosen the wrong file format for its library!
iPhoto is more likely getting bogged down with it's images. 800 images
is rather a lot to throw around (I remember earlier versions of OS X
that could not really cope with more than about 100 different icons
before it stopped drawing some of them). Scott doesn't mention whether
his problems only occur when showing ALL his images or whether he still
has problems when dealing only with reels at a time. Come to mention
it, I bet he's trying to use the big long list to navigate his iTunes
music as well, instead of using the browse button and selecting by
genre or something.
Still, in both cases, it's unlikely to be the ui that is at fault...
Robert
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