David T. Lewis wrote:

> He Alan,
>
>I assume you are aware of the TimeProfileBrowser... if not, that should
>absolutely be your next step. See <http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2133>.
>  
>

WOW!!
I was simply running each of my methods through " timeToRun: " and 
printing to transcript!

I did find something very interesting that I think will be of interest 
to the list, in general.

70% of my time was being spent in " BitBlt class >> bitPeekerFormFrom: "

Most of this time, (67% of the 70%) was spent in  a constructor method 
of Form, " extent: depth:"

If this creation of an auxilary form could be discarded, then it would 
also be of great benefit to these other methods:

B3DScanner > textureColor: aTexture atS: sValue atT: tValue
ColorForm >  pixelValueAt: aPoint
Form > floodFill2: aColor at: interiorPoint
Form > pixelValueAt: aPoint          <<< this is the one I'm using, 
indirectly through
                                                                       
    "colorAt: "
Pen >  print: str withFont: font
StarSqueakMorph > createPatchFormGetterAndSetter
WarpBlt >  warpBitsSmoothing: n sourceMap: sourceMap