Tracking the Culprits: Making One-Way Constraint GUIs More Responsive

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J. W. Atwood

چکیده

In this paper, we analyze performance characteristics of four prior one-way constraint maintenance implementation techniques, emphasizing how these characteristics influence responsiveness, and introduce a lazy optimization technique called culprit tracking. While culprit tracking is not a panacea in terms of raw speed, its performance characteristics significantly improve the consistency of responsiveness of GUIs maintained under the one-way constraint evaluation model.

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