22nd
Performance Update
I’ve been working around the clock for the last few days to get our performance problems fixed, starting with the high memory usage. I’m extremely happy at the results so far and want to share some demos with you (for background information regarding the performance problems, see my previous post).
I’ve recorded two screencasts - one showing the current performance (~20MB, H.264) and one showing the improvements (~20MB, H.264). If you don’t have the time to take a look at them, here are the results:
- The current version peaks at 305MB for about 900 tweets
- The improved version stays constant at 41MB throughout the test
So the question is, when are going to ship this? Well, as soon as we can! We’ve got some surprises for the next update as well, so I’m quite excited about it. Apologies to everyone who had to endure high memory usage numbers and thanks for your patience.
Having fixed the 2 performance problems, there’s one left - which we will address in the update after next.
