[Newbies] Squeak speed under Mac OS X

[Steven Elkins]

On 1/4/07, Aleksandr Skobelev <al_skobelev at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> > Steven Elkins sgelkins at gmail.com
> > Wed Jan 3 15:22:08 UTC 2007
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> I'm using 3.9-final-7067 image. Without DejaVu fonts GUI works much
> better, but it still seems to be very heavy for my machine (for
> example, scrolling of the "Changes that have been done in 3.9" window
> gives 100% CPU load).

I see it reach 100% now and then but more often it's in the 75% range.
 <shrug/>  Anyway, I don't think it matters for your purpose, which I
seem to remember is trying Squeak.  If I were you, I'd write some code
to see what I could make it do.  For me, it does a lot.

Cheers,
Steve