morphic slowdown

Raymond raymondasselin at sympatico.ca
Sat May 25 16:41:49 UTC 2002


Le 2002/05/25 à 00:23, Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> à écrit: 

>On Sat, 25 May 2002, Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>> > Just another datapoint on Aaron's observation about 2.6
>> > morphic being more responsive than more recent versions -
>> > I was amazed by how much difference there was, so tried out
>> > some other versions.
>>
>> What kind of benchmark did you use?! On what machine?!
>
>Trivial benchmarks, observed but not timed.  How long it takes a
>browser window to come up, how smoothly scrolling through a browser list
>updates, delay between clicking on a category and seeing the list of
>methods, etc.  The qualitative difference is striking.  I will see if I
>can come up with some numbers, although I don't have a good idea of how to
>automate such tests.
>
I remember that there was a bug in the EventMorph at that time (somewhere between 2.8 and 2.9)
but if my memory is exact Dan Ingall was aware of that and ship a FIX for that. The symptom were
around windows display or dragging...sorry my memory is off.

Ray



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