New Win32 VM (3.9.2)

Andrew Tween amtween at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 20 19:08:43 UTC 2007


When using Shout with TTF fonts, things can get slow.
Try installing the patch described here...
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-November/111338.html
..which really speeds things up.
Cheers,
Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Beck" <martin.beck at hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: New Win32 VM (3.9.2)


> Andreas Raab schrieb:
> > Martin Beck wrote:
> >> After using this version for some time I recognized a decreasing in
> >> the speed of the event handling. The responses on my mouse clicks are
> >> very slow after some time, so browsing source isn't fun anymore. :(
> >> Also, my key events are sometimes mangled up, i.e. they don't arrive
> >> in the right order, if i type too fast. Also I can almost count the
> >> seconds till the key press events arrive on my screen. Using the vm
> >> from squeak.org solves this problem in the same image. However, 0
> >> tinyBenchmarks prints slightly better results for your version.
> >
> > I have couple of questions:
> > * What image are using?
> > * How long does it take until the effect is noticable?
> > * How fast is the machine you are running on? (only for comparison to
> > see what to expect on other machines)
> > * Are you using any "uncommon" plugins? (in particular those that might
> > have an effect on UI handling, say host windows, or wxSqueak)
> > * Does Alt-Period get rid of this problem?
> > * Does switching to 3.9.2 get rid of this problem?
> > * And finally: Anyone else seeing the same problem?
> Sorry for the long answer time, but its hard to get the time to test the
> image. My test image is 3.9final. I now just installed Shout, changed to
> demo font mode, typed in a new class with one simple method and forked
> this method in a new process. However, the method writes something on
> transcript and returns. After that I get the slow down for text
> typing... That took me 5 minutes without any special plugins with 3.9.2
> vm... Alt-period does nothing but intercept the ui process, so its no
> help either.
>
> However, in a fully clean image it doesn't occur....
>
> Greets, Martin
>
>




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