Aaron Reichow wrote:
> Brad-
> 
> The Nokia 800 is sure to be just as great a mobile Squeak platform as 
> the Nokia 770 is. The N800 doesn't have much different from the older 
> 770, but it does have a faster CPU - 320 rather than 250 MHz.  While 250 
> MHz sounds slow for Squeak in Morphic, it works quite admirably- I've 
> been using Squeak on my 770 for a while, and while 3.9 is too slow to 
> use, 3.6 is usable and anything older than that is even better. I've 
> found 3.2 is a great version- it's Morphic feels faster than the newer 
> versions of Squeak, but the built-in classes are similar enough to 
> 3.6-3.9's that writing an app for 3.2 and sharing it to 3.9 users works 
> fine. I've also had little problem getting most code for 3.7 or 3.9 
> working on 3.2, at least for what I'm doing.

That is very sad to hear.
Why is it that a newer version of Squeak is slower than older versions? 
Is it only on small systems? What has changed that makes it so much slower?