mapbox/tilemill — Issue #813: Faster startup time
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2011-10-19 14:28:22+00:00
State: open

In the context of the OSX app we've discussed prioritizing research and action on improving startup times for the node process, so that the latency after the app wrapper is loaded and tilemill is ready is reduced.

In testing 0.6.0 just now I saw the spinner run for at least 10 seconds on a cold start. What is interesting is that during the cold start for each least 5 seconds before the app was ready I could already fully access TileMill (and renderer tiles) via url from another machine (after checking 'All interfaces' in the app and restarting). So, in addition to node process startup times there is also some delay between the node process reporting it is ready and the app acknowledging it.