Does *anyone* use MVC?

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Wed Jul 31 22:16:31 UTC 2002


Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Scott Wallace <scott.wallace at squeakland.org>  asked...
> 
> >It seems to me that no Squeaker could plausibly have been doing any real work in MVC in any 3.2 or 3.3a since this bug arrived more than eight months ago, because the mere raising of a single debugger would have put his environment into a state no reasonable person could tolerate.  And he would therefore have screamed and we would have heard.
I use MVC virtually all the time on my Acorn because Morphic is so damn
unusably slow. I hadn't noticed anything untoward (maybe I just don't
cause notifiers much after all these years) except maybe one occasion
when it seemed like a similar chaos was unleashed. I don't remember what
I did about it but it can't have been too traumatic at the time or I
would have indeed screamed.

I have noticed
a) that MVC has been getting slower somehow - missing events in some
fashion perhaps. This is despite having sped up the Acorn vm by 20%
recently.

b) that morphic is close to unusable on my pBook 400 OS-X machine and on
my linux machine (p3/800 or something) these days.

I'm using 3.2 release and have been on 3.2 track since it started. I
don't use 3.3 at the moment.

tim
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