Kevin --

Check out the character recognition a little more. Try decoupling the 
recognizer from the paragraph editor (where I suspect the time is 
actually going). If you look at the algorithm, I think you'll see 
that it is essentally instant (the recognition is done via the hash 
lookup of a dictionary).

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:42 PM -0500 1/15/01, Kevin Fisher wrote:
>Hi:
>
>This is a very subjective question...to anyone that's using Squeak on
>your handheld of choice, I ask:  How responsive does Morphic feel?
>
>Although I'm still struggling with an unoptimized VM on my iPaq, I
>find Morphic to be a bit...sluggish.  It's not horrible by any means...
>but it is a bit slower than I was hoping.  Dragging morphs particularly
>slow (due to the drop shadow perhaps?).  Stuff like character recognition
>seems a bit slow as well, but it's certainly usable (just not as fast
>as my Palm IIIc).  I haven't had any time yet to look at potential
>bottlenecks.
>
>I'm just curious, is all...I'm still looking in to getting the build chain
>fixed on handhelds.org (I've already brought it up on their mailing
>list).