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numberscope / frontscope

Numberscope's front end and user interface: responsible for specifying sequences and defining and displaying visualizers
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Apparent serious inefficiency with stored OEIS IDs #459

Open gwhitney opened 2 months ago

gwhitney commented 2 months ago

As far as I can tell from some inserted console.log()s, as the code currently stands in ui2, the frontscope re-downloads every single OEIS sequence on the list of "IDs of current interest" stored in the browser every single time the visitor

As the number of OEIS IDs on this list grows -- which it inevitably will for a repeat user, especially one that does not clear browser storage often -- this constant re-download becomes truly prohibitive. We need to devise a strategy for making at least some of these sequences very accessible without ultimately completely overwhelming the user interface.

gwhitney commented 2 months ago

I have at least in #420 moved these initializations to an explicit async function so we can control to some extent when this computational burden will happen.