we really need help

[Adrian Lienhard]

Hi,

I''ve had a quick look... As I understand there are basically two  
problems
- MC speed
- load order

For the first, MC is very slow for big packages. I think, that what  
Impara did with the diff MC versions was to get around this a bit,  
maybe this could help here, maybe improving dictionariy performance  
would help too.
Anyway, I guess that the complexity is not linear, thus, looking at  
the scripts in ScriptLoader does not surprise me if this is really  
slow. Do you need _all_ packages in these scripts to be loaded at  
once? I suggest to decompose as much as possible, else working on the  
second problem becomes very painful. Another question: why do you do  
a merge instead of a load? I don't think its worth merging, if people  
have their own changes they have to deal with them before loading an  
image update (after all, that was what changesets did anyway). I  
guess, loading would again be faster than merging.

For the second problem (that's what I've been confronted concerning  
loading traits): If the changes are not that complex (as it seems to  
be in this case of FasterRectangelInsetBy) it should be doable with  
two packages that have to be loaded one after the other (thus, not  
using the merger of the script!). The backporting feature of MC can  
help here to create the pre-load package (backport all changes  
without the critical one to the previous version).

Maybe I can have a closer look in the evening. How can I get to the  
latest working version (IIRC, MorphicSplitters loading was working)?

Adrian



On Oct 10, 2005, at 9:36 PM, Marcus Denker wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Sadly I really have no time to work on Monticello... or even to  
> look at
> the current state too much. So no idea for that problem.
>
> For sure, we need to get the whole mess working soon.... I will try  
> to find
> some time, but I fear that this will need to wait till I'm settled  
> in Santiago,
> so maybe end of next week.
>
>
>> I tried to tweak a bit the script by loading first kernel-md.42.mcz
>> take a 6693 image
>>     - merge MC275
>>     - scriptloader-sd.8.mcz
>>     script 6
>>     - but now I get an error because Debugger does not know  
>> stepAt:in:
>>
>>
>
> This is caused by the fact that #stepAt:in: has been moved to the  
> morphic
> package, so just loading "kernel" will delete that method.
>
>      Marcus
>