[squeak-dev] Our ancient ancestor

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Thu May 2 03:34:36 UTC 2013


On 01-05-2013, at 4:01 PM, "Juan Vuletich (mail lists)" <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:

> Quoting tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
> 
>> 
>> On 01-05-2013, at 11:58 AM, "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> And the wide bodied Alto had 512kB of memory = 1/2 MB, right?
>>> 
>>> RaspberryPi has a thousand times more.
>>> 
>>> So Squeak _should_ run on it properly... Does it?
>> 
>> It certainly runs 'properly'. The raw performance (currently with the plain interpreter, stackvm coming soon and Cog sometime) is rather good at around 40mbc/s & 1.4msends/s, which is probably around 400 times faster than an Alto. Morphic UI performance is not so good but that is mostly because it's terrible on *all* machines with current high-end Macs etc managing to cover it up with brute power. Run an older image - say 2.8 era - and consider how we have managed to ruin the UI speed. Try an old image on a Pi and be amazed.
> 
> Or try Cuis on it. As responsive as the 2.8 (in a Morphic project), but also looks good.

Quite right - I should have remembered to say that.


tim
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