StrongARM SBC performance of Squeak?
Ned Konz
ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Jul 18 18:24:51 UTC 2001
We're looking at using Squeak on a small, low-power single-board computer,
perhaps a StrongARM machine. This will mostly not be doing anything too
interactive, but there will be a simple status display. There will be serial
and network communications, as well as some database access (I may write a
BerkeleyDB plugin to do this, as I don't need a relational DB).
We will probably be running Linux, and using VNC for the display.
But I wonder whether the performance will be adequate (I know, what's
adequate...). Has anyone had any experience using Squeak (especially the
development tools like the browsers) on such a device? I guess the Compaq
iPaq is somewhat similar (200MHz or so processor, probably very little
caching) to what we have in mind.
I know there's iPaq users out there. Anyone experienced with using the
browsers, etc. on such a device? How about via VNC?
I'm trying Squeak on a 133MHz 586 single-board computer right now, and, while
it's not speedy (this is an understatement), it would probably be OK for what
we need. I just wouldn't want to spend too much time in the Morphic browsers
(I know MVC is faster).
It is a kick to see and interact with Squeak on a Palm using VNC over a
115200bps PPP serial connection to an embedded processor board.
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Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email: ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage: http://bike-nomad.com
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