Andrew Tween wrote:
> It loads ok, from Universe, if it is the first thing loaded.
> It fails to load in a 3.10 developer image -see 
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6952

Yeah, I was just looking at this. BTW, has anyone actually tried to work 
with the Squeak-dev image naively? It's a complete screw-up; here is my 
experience with sq3.10-7159dev08.03.1.image:
* Try to open a new browser; looks like the system is frozen; three 
seconds later the browser *finally* appears
* Try to open a Universe browser (basic); no search facility; oh well...
* Try to open a Universe browser (enhanced); it has search (yay!); 
search for "FFI"; it explodes (some OB internal error)
* Open the basic universe browser again; open every goddamn tree to find 
the FFI; each tree takes about five seconds to open them all because 
it's so goddamn slooooooooow
* about a minute later, finally, FINALLY, find the FFI; click on FFI 
version 3.9 and "select package"; wait ten seconds before it *finally* 
selects something
* Try loading it; it explodes; abort it; expect to find the so-called 
"atomic" load to leave no traces behind; find out that that's not true
* Quit and go through the same process again; try with 3.9.1; it 
explodes again
* Open a debugger; find the place where it goes wrong; "browse" to it; 
ten endless seconds later a browser *finally* appears
* Navigate to ExternalType; try to understand what is wrong with 
StructTypes; WHERE THE HELL IS CLASS VAR REFS IN OB???

Giving up. This is completely and utterly unusable. Every single step 
takes five seconds or more. I have never seen a Squeak image that has 
frustrated me more and that made the simplest and most basic things 
painful and unusable.

If this is a "developer" image then I'm a graphics artist.

For comparison, the good ol' Browser macroBenchmark:

[saveMorphs := World submorphs.
World removeAllMorphs."heh, heh"
time := Time millisecondsToRun:[1 to: 10 do: [:i |
Browser fullOnClass: Object selector: #printOn:].
World submorphs do: [:m | m delete. self currentWorld doOneCycle].
]] ensure:[World addAllMorphs: saveMorphs].
time

executes in 44,120 msecs in the Squeak-dev image; in my Qwaq image 
(which uses Shout and TT fonts; Squeak-dev only uses Shout) this 
executes in a mere 6,173 msecs. That is about 7x faster than Squeak-dev. 
How do you people get work done?

Apologies for the rant, but when I'm trying to fix problems I'm not 
particularly tolerant towards any "improvements" that serve no other 
purpose than distracting me from getting the job done.

And apologies to everyone using 3.10 and trying to load the FFI but I 
can't fix the problem in a system that is *that* slow. Not unless 
someone buys me a 4GHz quadruple core box with two bazillion bytes of 
memory first.

Cheers,
   - Andreas