Re: Starting work on Indexed DB v2 spec - feedback wanted

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Ben Kelly <bkelly@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/2014 5:41 PM, Kyle Huey wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Dale Harvey <dale@arandomurl.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> No features that slow it down, as with Tim I also implemented the same
>>> thing
>>> in node.js and see much better perfomance against straight leveldb, with
>>> websql still being ~5x faster than idb
>>
>>
>> Do you have benchmarks for this?  When we've profiled IndexedDB
>> performance for Gaia apps in the past the issue is invariably that the
>> main thread event loop is busy and IndexedDB's responses have to go to
>> the end of a long line.
>
>
> I would hazard a guess that some of SQL's more feature rich constructs allow
> you to do more in a single API call.  This could mean you need to hit the
> event loop less often to accomplish the same amount of work in many cases.
>
> Just a theory.
>
> Ben

Yes, that's entirely possible.  Which is why I would like to see a testcase ;-)

- Kyle

Received on Friday, 18 April 2014 06:48:49 UTC