[Newbies] RE: Why Squeak is so sloooow?

[Milan Zimmermann]

On 2006 September 21 18:33, David Shaffer wrote:
> ] timeToRun.
>
> 15000
>
> At this point the UI is so slow that moving a window or morph results in
> a noticable lag (nearly a second between releasing the mouse button
> after a drag until the object that was dragged is drawn in its new
> location).
>

David,

Thanks for running it - your observation is interesting, here it does not seem 
noticeably slower after I have run the benchmark ... 

I am starting to think (if I read your configuration correctly) - you do have 
a different image (I have newer than 7055) and slightly different VM - at 
least compiled using different GCC version... The older GCC the faster :) - 
If you have time to experiment,  you may want to try Ian's VM that I use?

Davids setup:
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shaffer at localhost ~/Squeak/Squeak3.9g-7055 $ squeak -version
3.9-7 #1 Mon Sep  4 17:01:02 EDT 2006 gcc 3.4.6
Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
Linux localhost 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 24 18:31:06 EDT 2006
i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz GNU/Linux
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
========================

Milans setup:
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Squeak3.9g-7058.image
mzimmermann at home-server:~> squeak -version
3.9-7 #5 Mon Apr 24 20:07:28 PDT 2006 gcc 3.3.5
Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
Linux vps.piumarta.com 2.4.20-021stab028.18.777-enterprise #1 SMP Wed Sep 14 
19:34:46 MSD 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
default plugin location: /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
========================

Milan


> > You would have to install the above package from Squeakmap to run the
> > "graphics test" I mentioned, but please note it's alpha, so install to a
> > 3.9 image without important stuff.
> >
> > I am not sure this is a good "graphical test", it does create graphs, so
> > it should have some value, it is non-interactive graphics though. Apart
> > from that, 3.9 feels as good as 3.7 here, but as you said .. it's my
> > feelin' only
>
> Agreed...it is subjective.
>
> David
>
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