Performance optimization for gopher and finger xfers.

[elpher.git] / ISSUES.org

diff --git a/ISSUES.org b/ISSUES.org
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@@ -41,12 +41,19 @@ Here is the checklist of features required before release:
 The last few will be made infinitely easier if we factor the
 gopher "getter" code differently.
 
 The last few will be made infinitely easier if we factor the
 gopher "getter" code differently.
 

-** OPEN Implement Finger support

 
 ** OPEN Add history browsing
 
 ** OPEN Add history browsing

+   
+** OPEN Download/rendering progress feedback
+   Particularly for large files or complicated pages, elpher can
+   take a few seconds or more to generate a response.  Thhis is
+   frustrating for users, who are left staring at a blinking
+   cursor.

 
 

+   A small amount of feedback could help with this.
+   

 * Bugs
 * Bugs

-
+  

 * Completed improvements
   
 ** CLOSED Turn on lexical scoping
 * Completed improvements
   
 ** CLOSED Turn on lexical scoping


@@ -115,6 +122,17 @@ then we can get rid of redraw entirely.
 Actually, this command can be useful to correct rendering issues that
 occasionally pop up in termal windows.  Lets leave it for now.
 
 Actually, this command can be useful to correct rendering issues that
 occasionally pop up in termal windows.  Lets leave it for now.
 

+** CLOSED Implement Finger support
+   
+** CLOSED Improve download performance
+   This is actually easy to fix - the major problem at the moment is
+   the braindead way the incrementally-retrieved data is recorded:
+   (setq result-string (concat result-string next-bit)).
+   This is O(N^2).  Yuck!
+   
+   Okay, replacing this really does improve things.  Large gemini
+   downloads now seem occur at rates I'd expect.
+

 * Closed issues
   
 ** CLOSED Org mode faces are not present in recent emacs versions
 * Closed issues
   
 ** CLOSED Org mode faces are not present in recent emacs versions