[Q] Question on Magma (or other Persistence Engine for Squeak/Seaside)

[Keith Hodges]

Sungjin Chun wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've tested with WAMagmaShared session and it does make sushi store
> application little faster: 1 second faster. Attached screen shot is the
> proof. But I hope this should be order of 100 milli seconds at most.
> Any other thing that I should try? Or just change to other ones:
> OmniBase? MinneStore(again)?
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I thought that the slowdown may be due to the transcript being open.

I looked through the code and put a halt in where the Magma Collection 
is being accessed.

WABatchedList-batch

    ^ self items copyFrom: self startIndex to: self endIndex.

self items is a MagmaCollectionReader, so it looks like it is doing the 
right thing.
executing this code directly on my very slow machine (700Mhz), I was 
getting 944ms just to return this collection of 8 items. There are no 
read strategies defined, but I am not sure that should make any 
difference to the timing here.

Keith