I think I have seen the same problem (loading TTFSpeedUp-dgd.2.cs
fails because the progress is open.). I think the problem can be
avoided by doing

	Installer mantis bug: 6089 fix:'TTFSpeedUp-dgd.2.cs'.
	World doOneCycleNow.


Cheers

Matthias

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM, stephane ducasse
<stephane.ducasse at free.fr> wrote:
>
>  On May 2, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Matthias Berth wrote:
>
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> > I get another factor of 2 speedup when using TrueType fonts in Browsers
> with:
> >
> > Installer mantis bug: 6089 fix:'TTFSpeedUp-dgd.2.cs'.
> >
> > Now browser speed with truetype fonts is comparable to speed with
> > bitmapped fonts.
> >
> > The Mantis issue  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6089 says this
> > improvement will be in 3.10, might be a good idea to have it included
> > in the next dev image based on 3.9.1 as well :-)
> >
>
>  Yes I tried but because there is always a but in squeak.
>  The wonderful pops that are used when MC loads a package use the fonts...
>  so it broke and I gave up because not the time to find how to stop the pop
> up behavior.
>  Popup menu and the like are a real plague....
>
>  Stef
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> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Matthias Berth
> > <matthias.berth at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > several people have observed slow browser behavior in version 3.9, in
> > > particular that browsers get slower the more of them you open [1].
> > > Benchmarks showed that things were faster in 3.8 [2]. Jerome Peace
> > > narrowed it down to 3.9 alpha, between 6684 and 6686. I have seen the
> > > slowdownn disappear when switching off rounded window corners in my
> > > 3.9.1 dev image, see [1] for details.
> > >
> > > So for now, if you want faster screen updates with multipe browsres
> > > open, do not use rounded window corners:
> > >
> > >  Preferences disable: #roundedWindowCorners.
> > > thanks to everyone who helped with this.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] Mantis issue 0002084: Each overlaping browser slows down screen
> > > updates considerably
> > >   http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=2084
> > > [2] Thread "3.9 Browser speed" started by Andreas Raab,
> > >
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/108359
> > >
> > >
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