This is strange because this problem was fixed by adrian and marcus.
Marcus just told me that he never saw that behavior after the bug fix  
was in.
On which platform are you? VM?

Stef

On 14 juil. 06, at 19:55, Colin Putney wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Normally I work in 3.7, but recently I've been working on getting  
> OB up to snuff in 3.9. It's no fun.
>
> It seems that slow drawing problem is still around in 3.9 and worse  
> than ever. In the good old days, you could watch each window being  
> redrawn in turn, and you could see text being drawn character by  
> character. Thanks to the radial gradients in 3.9's  SystemWindows,  
> you now get to watch every window redraw EACH PIXEL of the gradient  
> as well. Opening and closing debuggers can take minutes if you've  
> got a lot of windows open.
>
> This problem has been around for at least a year, and has been  
> discussed several times. See, for example:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2005-June/ 
> 092514.html
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-January/ 
> 099650.html
> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=2359
>
> Fixing this is beyond my ken, so I can only appeal to the gurus out  
> there: please, don't let 3.9  ship with this bug.
>
> Colin
>
>