Squeak 3.8 with big fonts is terribly slow

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Fri Sep 30 07:26:47 UTC 2005


  Noury,

> For my lectures, I changed all fonts (lists, menus, code, ...) to 
> ComicSansMS-17 Point-Bold.
> But, it leads to a slow-down of reactivity. I have to wait (about 2 
> seconds)  when selecting/resizeing/moving windows or openning 
> menus/windows (up to 10-12 seconds when openning a filelist!).
> 
> BTW, I'm using mac carbon VM 3.8.9b1 on a G4 1.33Mz powerbook 12" with 
> 512M of RAM.
> I made the test with a full 3.8-6665 image and a basic one also.

  Try a 3.7 line VM and compare them (and let us know the result^^;)

  As far as I heard, that is about the "correct" behavior of
finalization in 3.8 VM and the "bug dependent" implementation in glyph
caching of TrueType font.

-- Yoshiki



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