[squeak-dev] [Vm-dev] The Trunk: System-codefrau.1205.mcz

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 19:10:45 UTC 2021



> On Jan 2, 2021, at 8:41 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Vanessa,
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:28:35PM -0800, Vanessa Freudenberg wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>> 
>> I haven???t actually tried it but it seems on a slow platform this would
>> delay the first-time startup by however long those benchmarks take, right?
>> 
> 
> No, it would run at most one time per session, and then only if someone
> sends #isLowerPerformance. I think thas means it would affect the run time
> of the first unit test that someone runs after starting the image, but
> otherwise no impact. Certainly it would not be noticable to humans.

David, put this delay in every startup and use Squeak as a scripting language and apply the script to every file in your home directory and yes, it would be noticeable to humans.

> 
> I like Levente's suggestion also.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 


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