I want to add that we harvested a lot of speed up improvements in  
3.9. (missed the font caching).
This is why the work of Pavel on mini image is really interesting  
since we could rebuild something on top of it.

Stef

On 13 janv. 07, at 19:04, Brad Fuller wrote:

> Aaron Reichow wrote:
>> Brad-
>> The Nokia 800 is sure to be just as great a mobile Squeak platform  
>> as the Nokia 770 is. The N800 doesn't have much different from the  
>> older 770, but it does have a faster CPU - 320 rather than 250  
>> MHz.  While 250 MHz sounds slow for Squeak in Morphic, it works  
>> quite admirably- I've been using Squeak on my 770 for a while, and  
>> while 3.9 is too slow to use, 3.6 is usable and anything older  
>> than that is even better. I've found 3.2 is a great version- it's  
>> Morphic feels faster than the newer versions of Squeak, but the  
>> built-in classes are similar enough to 3.6-3.9's that writing an  
>> app for 3.2 and sharing it to 3.9 users works fine. I've also had  
>> little problem getting most code for 3.7 or 3.9 working on 3.2, at  
>> least for what I'm doing.
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> That is very sad to hear.
> Why is it that a newer version of Squeak is slower than older  
> versions? Is it only on small systems? What has changed that makes  
> it so much slower?
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