[Newbies] Squeak speed under Mac OS X

[Aleksandr Skobelev]

On Jan 5, 2007, at 01:41, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> I'm using 3.9-final-7067 image. Without DejaVu fonts GUI works much
>> better, but it still seems to be very heavy for my machine (for
>> example, scrolling of the "Changes that have been done in 3.9" window
>> gives 100% CPU load).
>
> The Squeak mouse logo - with the eyes which follow the cursor - takes
> quite a bit of CPU resource. Making it smaller with the yellow halo
> handle, or indeed removing it completely will reduce the CPU load
> considerably.

Thanks, but it seems not to be the case: there is not such mouse  
keeper in the Squeak I have.
But it reminds me the old anecdote, when a doctor asks the patient if  
he smokes: "No, I don't", - "It's a pity, you could try to drop it  
then". :)