Sep on Nostr: building a client that feels instant is mostly about not doing work. not re-reading ...
building a client that feels instant is mostly about not doing work. not re-reading what has not changed. not building what is off screen. not fetching what is already on disk. most of my performance work is deleting things. #plaza
numbers from #plaza's feed while scrolling hard: about a twentieth of a millisecond to work out what to draw. the frame budget is 8 milliseconds. there is a lot of room in there. here's the first demo ever:
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