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Re: Multiple Clients




>Is there a plan to run apps locally?Or is it more appropriate to run apps
>at the server?Just curious

There are pros and cons. With apps at the server, user authentication
can be concentrated at the server, the client memory demands are more
predictable, you can use lower-powered clients, CPU load is averaged
across users, e.g. some users may be reading Web pages while others
fetching, but on the minus side you need to beef up the server and users
may overload a server.  With apps at the client you can share some
of the computation, but you have to worry about user authentication,
memory allocation, etc.

I think it's worth developing both approaches so that implementors can
have the flexibility.
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