21 May
2012
21 May
'12
1:08 p.m.
On 21 May 2012 17:27, Yves Parès
I fail to see how the GUI part would suffer from lack of performance if the rest of the system is fine. I would hate to be bold, but to me this case sounds a little bit like "MVC done wrong" if the breaking GUI apart from the rest of the software is really that impossible.
A few years ago one of the architects at Adobe published some slides on the software engineering aspects of PhotoShop, unfortunately I couldn't find them on the web when I tried recently but I believe it stated the codebase was well over 1 million lines of C++ and the GUI (including Adobe's own frameworks) accounted for more than half of that... GUI's often *are* the program rather than a way in to use it.