Morphic slowness (was Re: Does *anyone* use MVC?)

Jim Benson jb at speed.net
Fri Aug 2 23:23:10 UTC 2002


I don't know much about the cache part, but when I looked at this a couple
of years ago I thought that Morph>>invalidRect:from: wasn't playing very
nice. It uses "self wonderlandTexture" which does a dictionary lookup if a
morph has extension properties.

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: Morphic slowness (was Re: Does *anyone* use MVC?)


> > Some time ago I traced Morphic code and it turned out
> > to be that the interesting properties that cause slowdown
> > due to dictionary lookup are 1 or 2.
>
> Not surprising - but *which* ones did you cache???
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>




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