68k Mac version of Squeak

Parker, Mike mparker at CaseServices.com
Thu Jun 8 14:00:11 UTC 2000


There must be something wrong with your setup.  I've got the 2.0 VM
running on my NeXT slab (25 mhz 68040).  Its definitely not as snappy
as 2.8 on my 600mhz PIII box, but it's still quite usable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew P. Black [mailto:apb at cse.ogi.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 3:01 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: 68k Mac version of Squeak
> 
> 
> At 0:33 -0700 2000.6.8, Andrew P. Black wrote:
> >>Too slow?  Depends on the speed of your 68K.
> >>Faster than the simulator anyhow ;-).
> 
> To answer my own question: yes, it's too slow to be usable.  Example: 
> 20 to 30 seconds to pull a menu item.   Looks like its back to 
> VisualWorks for this trip, unless I'm doing something very wrong wrt 
> mixing a 2.8 VM and 2.7 plugins.
> 
> 	Andrew
> 





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