Flippant last words

"720p ought to be enough for anybody"
-- Some person with a 19" VGA monitor that maxes out at 1280x1024

The quoted is likely to eat crow once obtaining a digital display in excess of 52".

Or Dennou glasses.

(So, not for a while?)

I do have plans to run 1080p, because the urge to future-proof is strong, but not so strong that I'll encode at an unwatchable resolution before a watchable one.

Site Stuff

Just so I can justify slapping a "meh-ta" category on this really short entry, I broke the site for about 10 minutes a while back as I tried to push as much as I could to memcache. I was hoping to reduce the CPU time per request, which currently averages 500 ms.

With things set up so that all the XHTML is served directly from memcache, I'm now seeing times of under 20 ms, but there are still many 500 ms response times. I suspect that service time is dominated by startup time since not enough requests come in to make it worth caching the app. Quite the sorry state of affairs. Well, I won't know for certain unless I break out the profiler.

But with a free quota of 6.5 CPU hours per day, I'd have to serve over 46800 requests a day to make it worth my while, and that is probably not going to happen. Ever.

"6.5 CPU hours per day ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Some person who is evidently lacking in popularity