[sugar] perceived sugar performance

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>  >
>  > > > We have a completely different approach to activity launching in the
>  >  >  > works (I've been hacking it up myself...I need some help from the pros
>  >  >  > to finish it!)
>  >  >
>  >  >  Why are we building a splash screen instead of speeding up activity
>  >  >  launch? We know that programs can put up full-screen windows in
>  >  >  0.1-0.5s.
>  >
>  >  We cannot presume that _all_ activities will be able to put a window
>  >  in 0.1-0.5s, and probably don't want all the activity authors to
>  >  implement something like that.
>  >
>  >  I see as a good thing to improve both feedback and launch performance.
>
>  But if most of activities startup in ~ 1.5, switching context two
>  times during this period might be excessive.

Might be, but I guess Eben doesn't want to switch context 2 times? I
imagine his placeholder window as a transition from the shell to the
activity window, right?

Tomeu