Can I make a temporary view in perforce faster?

I like the time-lapse view, but I often start with the File History view. Since, as you point out, the most interesting changes are the latest, I usually go through the latest changes and their descriptions. Often I see a change that looks particularly interesting, and I go through this changelog on my own and see what interests me.

Regarding view speed time lag, wondering if there is a problem on your server or your client. A couple of things to try:

• Is the time view or slow when trying to use it on a colleague's workstation?
• If you run 'p4 annotate> tmp' is it also slow?

If "p4 annotate" is fast, you may find it useful for those especially large files with very long histories. The time view is very powerful and easy to read, but it collects a huge amount of information from the server and then has to format that information for display.

In my case, when I bring up the timing idea, I usually plan to study the results for a while, so I'm willing to wait a few seconds for it to load.

If the problem is that your server is overloaded, you should contact your Perforce administrator and see what they can do. Perhaps it can add additional resources to your server (usually memory), or perhaps you should consider deploying a read-only replica that can fully service operations such as viewing the time from the replica without requiring any cycles from the main server. Perforce technical support is always happy to help with such problems.