On Sat, 25 May 2002, Avi Bryant wrote:

> In 2.8, the amount of time it takes to switch classes is fairly low and
> fairly constant.  In 2.9, however, although it starts off the same, it
> increases directly with the number of methods in the class.  This is
> consistent with my observations just clicking around.  I don't know what
> the root cause is, but this symptom alone has a major effect on how
> responsive the system feels.

Just a further point - this effect does not occur in MVC on any image I've
tried.  It does occur on both Linux and Mac OS 9.