8.0.2 is even better than you think
By now, everyone who's likely to read this blog knows about the performance improvements in the startup and performance time of the Expeditor framework surrounding Notes 8.0.2. Faster startup, better JVM, view selection gutter -- all these have been covered extensively.
But it's useful to remember, too, that we get improvements to some of the good ol' fashioned Notes capabilities. 8.0.2 includes important fixes for @functions, DXL, web server, and even unread marks.
I wanted to highlight two improvements that are almost undoubtedly important to readers of this blog.
SPR# DPOL6DTGTH - Performance improvement in the time it takes to open a form which contains several subforms with script libraries.
SPR# JSHN6Y2VTY - Modules which use Scriptlibs load slowly. With this fix, chains of scriptlibs should load up to 50% faster.
You read that right. With 8.0.2, EVERY SINGLE APP that you have that uses Script Libraries (and I'm guessing that's pretty much all of them, right?) is faster, whether it was designed in Notes 8 as a super-cool composite app, or written in Notes 4.5 when the feature was first introduced.
Please note that the second problem has a history of being rather severe. Load times for forms that have subforms and have (Globals) declarations took exponentially longer to load with each additional subform. It's been a catastrophic failure for a long time. I haven't tested it in all scenarios myself, but I can certainly attest that 8.0.2 has dramatic improvements on this front in my own smoke testing.
So all your Lotusscript geeks out there take note: You might not be getting a bunch of new classes, functions or language capabilities in this release. But it does make what you already have get immediately better.
Peter Presnell should be finishing his rollout plan by the end of today, eh?
Comments
Posted by Steve Castledine At 11:00:42 AM On 08/29/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 11:02:27 AM On 08/29/2008 | - Website - |
This would definitely explain it!
Posted by Jess Stratton At 11:05:22 AM On 08/29/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by John Head At 11:13:13 AM On 08/29/2008 | - Website - |
8.0.2 is also the first release since 6.5.4FP2 that doesn't need a bunch of hotfixes for serious web shops. Many SPRs, from crashes to busted HTTP_Referer fields to invalid HTML table rendering caused by hide-whens, are baked into this release.
Posted by Erik Brooks At 12:29:37 PM On 08/30/2008 | - Website - |