Hello, all-

I've written a relatively long-running search program (started it  
yesterday afternoon, and it was still chugging away when I left the  
house this morning).  I can leave it going indefinitely on my desktop  
PC, but I noticed in the task manager that the Squeak process was  
using exactly 50% of available CPU.  This remains the same regardless  
of whether the VM preference for "reduce CPU usage" is checked.  In  
the image itself, the "higherPerformance" preference is checked.

(This is under Squeak 3.9 on a WinXP machine.  If I remember  
correctly, the CPU itself is one of the vintage 2005 hyperthreading  
Intel chips.)

Is there a way to tell the VM to hog the CPU?  Failing that, would  
there be any significant reason *not* to start a second Squeak  
session to run another such job at the same time?  (=

Thanks,
-Sam Livingston-Gray
  comp.sci. senior, Portland State University