[Newbies] Squeak speed under Mac OS X

[Steven Elkins]

On 1/3/07, Aleksandr Skobelev <al_skobelev at mail.ru> wrote:
> > On 1/2/07, Aleksandr Skobelev <al_skobelev at mail.ru> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm wondering, is there any reason for Squeak to be so deadly
> > slow on
> > > iBook with 1.33 GHz Power PC CPU and 1 GB RAM and load it so
> > much? Is
> > > it a feature of the PPC implmentation or Squeak itself? Is there any
> > > choice that in near future Squeak performace on PPC will improve?
> >
> > Our definitions of "deadly slow" may be different.  I run Squeak on an
> > old iBook...
> >
> > Machine Name: iBook G4
> > Machine Model:        PowerBook6,5
> > CPU Type:     PowerPC G4  (1.1)
> > Number Of CPUs:       1
> > CPU Speed:    1.33 GHz
> > L2 Cache (per CPU):   512 KB
> > Memory:       768 MB
> > Bus Speed:    133 MHz
> >
> > ...with less memory than you have and find it more than fast enough.
> > What are you doing with Squeak?
> >
> > Steve
>
> Well we have almost identical iBooks (I have 256 MB more and an
> updated CPU):
>
>   Machine Name: iBook G4
>   Machine Model:        PowerBook6,7
>   CPU Type:     PowerPC G4 (1.2)
>   Number Of CPUs:       1
>   CPU Speed:    1.33 GHz
>   L2 Cache (per CPU):   512 KB
>   Memory:       1 GB
>   Bus Speed:    133 MHz
>
> But I can not say it is more than fast enough. It might be that I was
> a bit incorrect in my previous message, and I needed to title it
> "Squeak CPU speed". But the sad story that I do almost nothing with
> it, I'm just trying to use it figure out what it is. And I see that
> GUI responsiveness is too low and the such basic operations as
> changing a window size or moving it (with fastDragWindowForMorphic
> disaibled) load CPU upto 100%. And after I've installed DejaVu fonts,
> I need to wait upto 4 seconds everytime I change size of the
> SqueakMap Package Loader window. Switching from the Class libraries
> category to Development tools takes about 8 seconds.

So...how does a vanilla image perform?  And which image version are
you using? I have fastDrag enabled (disabling is too slow for me too)
and I haven't installed those fonts.

Steve