[squeak-dev] excessively slow squeak download?

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 22:50:11 UTC 2014


Not sure, but I was just able to download it < 1 minute.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to DL the latest squeak all-in-one and its taking 1.5 hours
> according to the browser window. This is about 1/100 of my measured (just
> now) download speed of 5Mbps.
>
>
> Very odd and if this is the typical DL speed  then people who have never
> used Squeak before may well give up before the download finishes.
>
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> L
>
> --
> Squeak from the very start (introduction to Squeak and Pharo Smalltalk for
> the (almost) complete and compleate beginner).
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6601A198DF14788D&feature=view_all
>
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
> definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan
>
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