On May 2, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Matthias Berth wrote:

> I get another factor of 2 speedup when using TrueType fonts in  
> Browsers with:
>
> Installer mantis bug: 6089 fix:'TTFSpeedUp-dgd.2.cs'.
>
> Now browser speed with truetype fonts is comparable to speed with
> bitmapped fonts.
>
> The Mantis issue  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6089 says this
> improvement will be in 3.10, might be a good idea to have it included
> in the next dev image based on 3.9.1 as well :-)

Yes I tried but because there is always a but in squeak.
The wonderful pops that are used when MC loads a package use the  
fonts...
so it broke and I gave up because not the time to find how to stop the  
pop up behavior.
Popup menu and the like are a real plague....

Stef


>
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthias
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Matthias Berth
> <matthias.berth at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> several people have observed slow browser behavior in version 3.9, in
>> particular that browsers get slower the more of them you open [1].
>> Benchmarks showed that things were faster in 3.8 [2]. Jerome Peace
>> narrowed it down to 3.9 alpha, between 6684 and 6686. I have seen the
>> slowdownn disappear when switching off rounded window corners in my
>> 3.9.1 dev image, see [1] for details.
>>
>> So for now, if you want faster screen updates with multipe browsres
>> open, do not use rounded window corners:
>>
>>  Preferences disable: #roundedWindowCorners.
>> thanks to everyone who helped with this.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] Mantis issue 0002084: Each overlaping browser slows down screen
>> updates considerably
>>    http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=2084
>> [2] Thread "3.9 Browser speed" started by Andreas Raab,
>>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/108359
>>
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