[squeak-dev] Re: Usability and look-and-feel (was Re: The future ofSqueak & Pharo (was Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] Pharo MIT licenseclean))

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Thu Jul 9 12:02:35 UTC 2009


On 9-Jul-09, at 2:22 AM, David Corking wrote:

> Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>> I tried OB on
>> Pharo when I was looking into some FFI troubles. The main noticable
>> difference was *incredible* sluggishness. Every single action was  
>> greeted
>> with a 2-5 seconds pause. I kid you not. Granted, my computer isn't  
>> exactly
>> the fastest, but those were all actions where with the regular Squeak
>> browser I feel no noticable delay whatsoever.
>
> I used a 2 GHz Intel processor, and got a delay of around a second
> every time I opened a new browser window in pharo-dev 0.1.   (I used
> the OB clones of the standard browsers - not any of the new browsers
> or undocumented new features.  Also, I don't know if other images
> perform better.)

The problem here is that "OmniBrowser" is a fairly nebulous thing.  
It's a collection of packages, some of which are quite mature and  
perform reasonably well, and others which are more experimental. The  
configurations that tend to get installed in Squeak and Pharo are  
often just the most recent commits, rather than a coherent release.

To remedy this, I'm working on polishing up a clean release, which  
I'll call "OmniBrowser 2.0" and impose the same numbering scheme and  
release discipline that's been working well for  Monticello 2. It  
should be ready Real Soon Now.

Colin



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