>Duane Maxwell <dmaxwell at entrypoint.com> wrote...
> >Yeah, I played with it as soon as I updated to it.  Same thing - got a lot
> >of people wondering if I'd lost my mind (again) due to the funny (-ier than
> >normal) noises.  You're right, it's pretty impressive considering the
> >nature of the environment.
> >
> >However, after playing with it for about five minutes, switching various
> >options, the whole Squeak environment slowly ground to a halt, kinda like
> >continuous garbage collection.  I'll try and reproduce it and see if it was
> >coincidental.
>
>This could happen if your machine is marginally too slow.  Then in 
>sonogram mode, the display will get behind, and memory will start to 
>fill up with the unprocessed sound.  We should probably put in a 
>feature that dumps incoming data if it gets behind more than a 
>couple of seconds.  Also we might be able to tighten up the display 
>code for the sonogram a bit, but TANSTAAFL.

The code actually appears to freeze my iMac --decidedly unSqueak-like 
behavior-- requiring a Control-Escape out to unfreeze the machine. 
It would be nice if there were some way that could be repaired.