Faster version

[Paperoga]

 
Hi,
who can tell me wich is the faster platform version of TW, if there is any ?
I could choose beetwen Firefox (that I'm using), Linux and Node.js, the ones that can run on Kubuntu 16.04.

Thank you !

[TonyM]

Paperoga,

We do not hear much of differences in speed between browsers for tiddlywiki except when you place a higher demand such as total size embeded images etc.. where nodejs is used it can help as will external images.

Otherwise performance is more often limited by browser or general computer resources.

If you hit a performace problem or can suggest a use case we can give you more help.

For me I use multiple tws and access methods and have no problems do far.

Regards
Tony

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Tony M  & Paperoga

As far as I know there is not enough conclusive testing to answer that question clearly.

I do think its an issue. Performance has come up in recent discussions and is beginning to be looked at more seriously.

I think it matters most for public web. Load times matter a lot on first impression. But on that the server  speed, CDN etc. also figure.

My SUBJECTIVE experience is that TiddlyDesktop is somewhat better on local use than other modes. I believe it runs Chrome.

Best wishes
Josiah

Paperoga wrote:

who can tell me wich is the faster platform version of TW, if there is any ?

TonyM replied:

[Mark S.]

For firefox, reboot the browser and don't open more tabs than you really need.

[TonyM]

To add to mats suggestion, for personal use, if however you have lots of local cpu and memory, I do, 16gb on an ssd, and you do primarily work within a browser and with tiddlywiki then lifting the browsers own restrictions such that it can use more memory can improve the tiddlywiki performance for yourself.

It all depends on context and needs.

Tony

[PMario]

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 8:43:11 PM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote:

For firefox, reboot the browser and don't open more tabs than you really need.

That doesn't make sense. You can open as many tabs as you want. This doesn't affect TW. I personally have 10 tabs pinned, and several open, most of the time.

-m

[Mark S.]

The more tabs you open the more memory the browser takes. The more memory the browser takes, the slower the browser goes.  You can see the memory use in the task manager. When the browser uses too much memory it comes to a complete stop and I have to reboot.

It's possible that your computer has a lot of memory and don't notice this effect. I have only 8 gigs. At this moment, FF is taking up somewhere around 5 gigs and I will need to reboot soon. I was hoping that the new 57+ FF would be smarter about memory, but it is only marginally better than before.

-- Mark

[Tristan Kohl]

Hello Mark,

I can not second this impression as my FF 58.0.2 on Kubuntu 16.04 (8GB RAM) uses ~900MB right now with the main process taking up around 200MB of that. Currenty there are 2 Tabs pinned (WhatsApp Web and one TW) and... let me count... 24 Tabs open one of them YouTube playing a video. So your problem is quite strange as the memory use was significantly decreased with the FF 58 Update. Before that my Firefox was almost as bad as Chrome in regards to memory but since than it got so much better. Maybe there are some plugins of yours eating up your memory? I can not remember that I ever had to reboot my computer/browser due to memory problems. My last computer reboot was like 4 days ago since then I only went to hibernate with Firefox still open and no problems so far.

Cheers,
Tristan