About Magma performance

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> There has been a lot of discussion about Magma performance recently,
> and so I would like to try to address this question about performance.
>
> The new 1.2 alpha just announced addresses two major performance
> bottlenecks; the finalization process and the slowness of become:.
>

Did you manage to improve the #become:   slowness ?  if true, I am
interesting in knowning how.

Thanks

mariano


> There are many improvements since 1.1; please use 1.2 releases for all
> new development.  Note: 1.1 repositories require an upgrade to be read
> with 1.2.
>
> I don't know of any tool or framework for Squeak or Pharo that comes
> close to offering the number and level of performance measuring and
> tuning tools as Magma.
>
> MagmaBenchmarker is the place to start.  It's available in the "Magma
> Tools" package.  The numbers reported by the benchmarker are
> best-case, so it's a good litmus test of whether to consider Magma for
> the job.
>
> There are also a bunch of statistics Magma captures while running.
> Statistics are captured by each client-session, and the server tallies
> its own statistics too.  I did this for Hilaire a couple of years ago
> to improve Magma's performance over low-latency networks (ISDN); by
> compressing the data sent over sockets.  This statistics-gathering
> enhancement is designed so that Magma users can simply print the
> report, paste it here on this list, and reveal a lot about how your
> application uses Magma.
>
> Of course, MessageTally spies are always very useful too.
>
> All of these diagnostic tools are useful in determining which
> performance tuning tools should be employed for improvement.
>
> I would like to encourage use of these tools and, when all else fails,
> post a question here.  If you can't include a change-set that
> replicates a problem, then background information with a Message spy
> will be helpful.
>
>  - Chris
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