Sunday, March 8, 2009

Last Keys Part I

The Last Keys project is well under way.  I've just completed the conversion on the UniBasic side that will allow participation from the web side to work.  Last Friday I got far enough to run a few timings from an HttpHandler through from the web site and am getting last keys values in less than 1/30 of a second. So performance-wise the current design is proving out well.  Lots of work awaits in the roiTextbox and javascript libraries. Switching from heavy Unibasic work back to .NET seems alot like getting ones sea legs.  Takes a couple of days before I can code straight, or perhaps at the correct Microsoft pitched angles.

A major part of the speed I am seeing is from tools improvements that Doug and I were able to put into the CallRPCSub routine which shepards all the calls coming in across RedBack.  We've been able to shave .1 to .4 seconds off of each RPC call.  This has been patched back to 7.1 and 7.2 so 7.1sp7 and 7.2sp4 should show significant speed improvements for all the web functions.