Browser on slower machines

Eddie Cottongim cottonsqueak at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 26 19:13:21 UTC 2003


Fine with me.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Konz" <ned at bike-nomad.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Browser on slower machines


> On Saturday 26 July 2003 11:24 am, Eddie Cottongim wrote:
> > I've been noticing that on my slower machine, the Browser is quite
> > slow. If I open up all the Morph methods and click or use the arrow
> > keys to move through them, it takes about two seconds to display
> > each new method.
> >
> > I'm finding that for each new method selection by arrow key/mouse
> > click, ClassOrganizer>>allMethodSelectors gets called 4 times. This
> > requests that the message list be sorted, and that takes a bit of
> > time, about 50% of the total time spent updating.
> >
> > It seems like we can cache the sorted version of the list, but you
> > need to be careful to invalidate the cache when the original
> > (elementArray) changes.
>
> Rather than spend up to 200K or so caching these lists globally, why
> not make the Browser cache them?
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
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>
>
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