Andrew Berg <andrew_c_berg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> I recently downloaded the latest Squeak 3.4.1 image and VM for windows, and 
> installed onto my laptop, which is a 1GHz Pentium IIIm with Windows XP and 
> 512MB of ram.  I only mention that because from the time that I double- 
> click my shortcut to 'squeak.exe squeak.image' to the time that I see a 
> window appear it seems to vary from 1 to 3 minutes, and once up the mouse 
> moves very slowly and jerkily across it, and windows do not drag around 
> smoothly, etc.
Something must be _very_ wrong for this to happen. On my 200MHz
StrongARM machine it usually takes 20 seconds or so to start up and that
is bad enough. On a friends tabletPC it takes barely 3-5 seconds and on
my ancient 400MHz pBook it doesn't take much longer.

Has somebody put some dreadful net-dependant startup code in recently?

tim

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