[RFI] Annotations cache & progressive display of annotations

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Ian Clatworthy
<ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> wrote:
> The MySQL guys recently raised the fact that annotate is slower is 2a
> format than pack-0.92. Talking to poolie last Friday, this looks like
> something I could help improve in coming weeks.
>
> Before I look into it though, I'd like to start from the hard-earned
> knowledge and great ideas of others. I'm sure John, Robert, Vincent and
> others know 10X (well 100X) more than I do in this area. Any deep
> insights, tips or branches I should start from?
>
> I'd also like to hear from end users who use annotate frequently. How
> often are you using the GUI vs command-line to view annotations? Any
> thoughts on "lazy-loading" of the data into the GUI so we can begin
> showing some annotations immediately?


Hmm, looking at the qbzr code, the bzr api provides for lazy-loading,
but qbzr does not make use of it. Fixing this would not be difficult
to fix, and guess would be a good place to start.

Gary