Quoting tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:

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> On 23-02-2013, at 11:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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>> On 23.02.2013, at 19:24, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>> On 23-02-2013, at 5:58 AM, "Juan Vuletich (mail lists)"  
>>> <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>>>> What tinyBenchmarks performance do you get?
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>>> My Pi does about 42Mbc/s and 1.4Msn/s
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>> Under Linux, using the pre-installed Squeak VM and the Cuis image,  
>> I get 35 Mbytecodes/s and 1.0 Msends/s.
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>> Guess the Linux VM could use some of your ARM-Fu?
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> Ouch. That's quite a difference.
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>>> Try to get a Pi sometime. You'll adore the sheer cuteness of  
>>> having a machine that small and raw to play with. Download RISC OS  
>>> and enjoy a *really fun* operating system as well.
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>> I'll stick to Linux for the time being :)
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> Ya big wuss. ;-) Virtual memory etc has made you soft.
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>> Well, under MVC, all windows except the active one are dead. In  
>> Morphic they're live.
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> And maybe part of the problem is that not everything *needs* to be  
> alive all the time. Perhaps simply making appropriate morphs 'go  
> zombie' for a while would improve performance?
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>> Which is not to say this couldn't be improved: in the Scratch  
>> image, opening a browser is almost instantaneous (Scratch: 0.x  
>> secs, Etoys: 3 secs, Squeak: 3 secs, Cuis: 6 secs).
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> True; on the Pi opening a browser in the Scratch image is near  
> instant. Of course, they're absolutely hideously coloured. In fact,  
> long-dead-zombie colour wouldn't be too inaccurate. Anyone  
> interested in improving browser performance in Morphic should play  
> with the Scratch 'source code release' image and try to bring the  
> latest versions up to that same speed.

Or (as I said in other messages), check Cuis 4.0. It opens the browser  
14 times faster than Cuis 4.1. At least, the looks are quite nicer.

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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Oxymorons: Almost exactly
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Cheers,
Juan Vuletich