Thank you both very much!
So if I understand this correctly, the
design is intended to scale to thousands of transactions per second relatively easily, while it currently could reach 20 transactions per second with a truly tiny tweak, and 10 transactions per second is just written in for convenience / stability at this point.
And it looks like it's nowhere near this right now, so not a major concern in any way. I just always find out because "transaction limit (current)" is one of the items I have for my summary. :-)
Okay, I think I can pretty well do the write-up now. I'll let you guys know if I have any further questions, and I'll link in this thread once I post.
Cheers!
Edit: One additional note: sadly, the client is not working for me. It was syncing and getting close and looked really pretty, but then it up and crashed and I haven't been able to get it to load again. I know XP probably isn't considered supported these days, but it's still disappointing. And I didn't see *nix support for pre-compiled clients on the site. I'm not going to have time to compile my own *nix client today, so it'll be a week or two before I can use the client. Oh well; it's disappointing, but I review most of my "coins" without a client. Still, this and the low transaction volume and the state of the documentation show me a project in its infancy. That's not a horrible thing; it leaves upside potential just from getting basic development going, but there is work to be done. Hopefully I'll end up contributing.
Edit 2: I can't find a source giving transaction rates for the last 24 hours (number of transactions and total value of the transactions). I'd definitely appreciate if someone could link me to something like this; otherwise I'll just have to estimate from
http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/blocks as best I can.