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August 30, 2007

Census comments

Census comments: Yesterday I was puzzled by some of the comments at Ajaxian on James Wards' data loading benchmarks... it seemed like a number of people were objecting before actually reading what they were talking about. (The benchmark app is pretty neat, because it choreographs and displays an identical data request using multiple transfer mechanisms, and distinguishes server costs from transfer costs from decompression and parsing costs... great stuff.) One comment towards the end pulled things together for me... paraphrased, it was "If my boss sees this test, he'll want me to rework our perfectly good Ajax app into Flex." That could indeed be a danger -- significant speed advantages in a benchmark may not directly translate to meaningful performance differences in a given app, and it may not be cost-effective if the project is already well along the path to delivery. But on the other hand, it could be useful if the boss then provides time and resources to learning Flex -- gives you another tool in the toolbox. Anyway, these comments are a useful read, and I thank James for his forbearance throughout the thread, I would've blown my top long before that.... ;-)

Posted by JohnDowdell at August 30, 2007 02:52 PM

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Posted by: James Ward at August 30, 2007 03:17 PM