[Newbies] Why Squeak is so sloooow?

[Milan Zimmermann]

Hi Antonio,

Which VM version are you using - could you try to run, in command line:

squeak -version

And report results, thanks. Older versions of VM caused high CPU use, but I 
never had a "cpu overheat in a desmesurated way" :) - new version 3.9 is 
fine.

Many people on squeak-dev including me use Squeak on Linux, it certainly is 
reasonably fast for me (e.g. faster than Ruby, although I think you are 
talking mostly about graphical stuff?)

Also, in case you are using OpenCroquet http://opencroquet.org make sure you 
have OpenGL driver installed correctly. If you use straight squeak, is it 
slow for you even with a fresh image? http://squeak.org/Download



On 2006 September 21 10:18, Antonio San. wrote:
> I don't know if occurs the same in windows, but in
> linux squeak is very slow.
> I mean that all the thinks related to move pixels over
> the screen causes cpu overheat in a desmesurated way
> and a big latency.
> It is specially bad for videogames developed in squeak
> because the movement of a picture imply a speed down
> of other pictures in the game.
>
> I thought that it was caused by my old PC. But I have
> tested in five diferents machines, included a powerful
> P4 with 2.8Ghz and 512 Mb RAM, with the same results.
>
> Is X system (xfree86 and xorg) a bad way for execute
> squeak? Occur the same in windows?
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