On 25 août 05, at 04:18, Eddie Cottongim wrote:

> Günther Schmidt wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just bought myself Mark Guzdials Blue Book and am thus using  
>> Squeak 2.8, I've usually been using 3.8.
>>
>> Morphic in 2.8 gives me the impression to be a lot faster than in  
>> the 3.8 version, am I imagining this or can that actually be so?
>>
>> Günther
>>
>
> Depending on what kind of machine and how your UI is set up, the  
> difference is about 6x on the out of the box configuration. Its not  
> really a fair comparison though because of the newer eye candy.  
> Changing to the ST80 theme in 3.8 brings it down to about 3X. The  
> improvements in 3.9a should get the difference to about 2.5X in the  
> ST80 theme and  4.5X in the out of the box theme. All this is using  
> the 10 browser test on a p4-2.8ghz.

Eddie. we (with marcus) will really pay attention that all your  
efforts (thanks a lot) will not get lost. Believe us.
3.9 will rock.
Keep going your cool work.

>
> Other interesting notes, the VM has improved about 10% since 2.8,  
> and LazyLists make PluggableLists considerably better (when working  
> correctly anyway). The slowdowns include eye candy and  
> internationalization, but I don't completely understand where all  
> the time is going.
>
> Eddie
>
>