Well, my practical usage always involves very large data sources that I 
 need to process flexibly and quickly.
Yes, the subject should be rephrased: 'Squeak for I/O and memory 
intensive tasks?'

    Yoel

Nathanael Schärli wrote:

>>    However, this only proves my point - your application fits perfectly 
>>into 'playing with ideas'. Have you ever tried to open 2GB database in 
>>squeak and make automatic analysis of the data? Another application I 
>>needed - construction of LDIF files for customer's existing data 
>>sources. It worked, but it was very slow and the image was not fun to 
>>touch in the (long) time it ran.
>>
>
>Yoel,
>
>I agree, Squeak is probably not the ideal tool for managing large amount of
>data (~2GB). But, I 
>really don't understand why you are saying that only applications like that
>count as "practical 
>use". (There are tons of practical (and even professional) applications that
>deal with 10MB or 
>less of data). So, did you really mean to say that or did you just choose
>the wrong subject for 
>your posting? ("Squeak practical use?")
>
>Nathanael
>

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