> Hello,
>
> I attended a demonstration by Stéphane Ducasse, and I was really 
> impressed by squeak.

;)


>  I
> tried it on my PowerBook G4 1.25Ghz 1Go RAM, and I was less impressed 
> by its
> performance ;-). However, it runs quite smoothly on my officemate's pc 
> (winxp, athlon xp
> 2Ghz, 512Mo).
>
> Since
> - my machine is not _that_ slow,
> - the vm is the same for all machines,
> - there is not jit,
>
> I guess the problem comes from the display engine.
>
> First, is my guess right ?

The UI in Morph tends to get slower with the version. Try just for the 
fun to have a look
at open... mvc project. to get an impression of this fact.
John Mcintosh told me that there a bit of mess at the level of the 
event generated by
the VM since they were wrap for Morphic and wrapped again.

-  Try to change the display depth
- change the preferences (appearance...preferences...) and remove 
round-corners
- remove the Squeak head...
and normally it gets really acceptable. You can also try an old 
distribution so that we can
evaluate the difference.


Stef