A question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner found their editor to slow down while typing! A support request came in: When we load a huge document, we notice a significant slowdown in just about everything. …
This blogpost is part of a series on improving the performance of implementations of the Fonto editor. In our experience, XPath is often one of the biggest bottlenecks for the editor’s performance. This is logical if you look at most modern Fonto APIs: SX configuration, mutation hooks and even custom sidebars use a lot of …
A poorly performing application is pretty much always something which upsets users. And they should be; why would they need to wait for an application to finish processing? Writing high performances software is hard: it takes time, skill, discipline, and careful craftsmanship. Whether you’re writing a database application or a microservice that implements some algorithm, …
