I once had a situation in which I could reproduce the problem and  
then found a way to fix it by changing Debugger  
class>>openOn:context:label:contents:fullView: not to fork  
immediately but to do a WorldState addDeferredUIMessage: [..] instead.
This change went into 3.9, and I have the impression that the issue  
doesn't pop up that often anymore, however, it is still there.

Adrian

On Oct 27, 2006, at 11:13 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Am 27.10.2006 um 10:53 schrieb Avi Bryant:
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>> On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:45 AM, Todd Blanchard wrote:
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>>> I've recently started doing some work in 3.8.1 and whenever the  
>>> debugger appears, it takes about a minute for the screen to  
>>> redraw bit by bit.  Text looks like it is being hand typed.  Is  
>>> there a fix for this?
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>> A crude hack that I've found works is to disable  
>> #primitiveDeferUpdates: - for example by having it simply return nil.
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> I only ever saw this on the Mac Carbon VM - does it happen on other  
> VMs, too? Also, John might have fixed it in latest versions.
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