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sharnett / presentr

a glitchy and beautiful slide show presentation generator
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it's slow #8

Closed nmyk closed 12 years ago

nmyk commented 12 years ago

actually it might just be my internet right now

sharnett commented 12 years ago

It makes way too many calls to wikipedia. Should look into the multiprocessing package to make those calls asynchronous, since the majority of the time we're just waiting for wiki to respond.

sharnett commented 12 years ago

Also, downloading the full size tumblr images takes forever. Need to look into getting the smaller, alt sizes.

sharnett commented 12 years ago

Good enough for now.