In my M3 image, your benchmark gives 6.7 x faster than Squeak-dev. After 
evaluating Preferences slowMachine, it goes to 17.7 x. And it is 5Mb and 
749 classes while Squeak-dev is 20Mb and 2812 classes.

It seems different people have different ideas on what a developer's 
image should be!

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Andreas Raab wrote:
>
> If this is a "developer" image then I'm a graphics artist.
>
> For comparison, the good ol' Browser macroBenchmark:
>
> [saveMorphs := World submorphs.
> World removeAllMorphs."heh, heh"
> time := Time millisecondsToRun:[1 to: 10 do: [:i |
> Browser fullOnClass: Object selector: #printOn:].
> World submorphs do: [:m | m delete. self currentWorld doOneCycle].
> ]] ensure:[World addAllMorphs: saveMorphs].
> time
>
> executes in 44,120 msecs in the Squeak-dev image; in my Qwaq image 
> (which uses Shout and TT fonts; Squeak-dev only uses Shout) this 
> executes in a mere 6,173 msecs. That is about 7x faster than 
> Squeak-dev. How do you people get work done?
>
> Apologies for the rant, but when I'm trying to fix problems I'm not 
> particularly tolerant towards any "improvements" that serve no other 
> purpose than distracting me from getting the job done.
>
> And apologies to everyone using 3.10 and trying to load the FFI but I 
> can't fix the problem in a system that is *that* slow. Not unless 
> someone buys me a 4GHz quadruple core box with two bazillion bytes of 
> memory first.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>
>