Speed of Morphic in Cuis (Re: [squeak-dev] Bibi, a Scratch port to recent Squeak)

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 12:25:45 UTC 2013


Hello Juan,

I am happy that you found the bug in Cuis 4.1 and that you say Morphic
is still 5 times faster than Squeak though it uses Floats.

How did you measure the speed? Code snippet?

On 2/27/13, Juan Vuletich (mail lists) <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> Hi Tim, Bert,
>
> I just couldn't resist (more below).
.......
> I couldn't help it. Spent some time on the 300MHz equivalent P-III and
> found it. The culprit wasn't Float coordinates, but a couple of bugs I
> introduced with those changes. Please grab
> https://github.com/jvuletich/Cuis/blob/master/Cuis4WithLatestUpdates/Cuis4.1-1619.zip?raw=true
> or the updates from same Git
> repo.
>
> Cuis 4.1 now opens windows as quickly as Cuis 4.0, i.e. as quickly as
> Scratch, and at least 5 times faster than Etoys or Squeak.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>

Great work, thank you

--Hannes


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