Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-20 Thread Camillo Bruni
On 2012-03-19, at 20:54, Marcus Denker wrote: You used your own images for Pinocchio, or was Pinocchio just fast enough for the standard images? Pinnocio can't run the image... it's (just ;-)) a compiler from smalltalk to binary code... the .exe then boostraps an image, but there is no

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan Marr
On 20 Mar 2012, at 14:03, Camillo Bruni wrote: On 2012-03-19, at 20:54, Marcus Denker wrote: You used your own images for Pinocchio, or was Pinocchio just fast enough for the standard images? Pinnocio can't run the image... it's (just ;-)) a compiler from smalltalk to binary code...

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-20 Thread Camillo Bruni
On 2012-03-20, at 14:49, Stefan Marr wrote: On 20 Mar 2012, at 14:03, Camillo Bruni wrote: On 2012-03-19, at 20:54, Marcus Denker wrote: You used your own images for Pinocchio, or was Pinocchio just fast enough for the standard images? Pinnocio can't run the image... it's (just

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-20 Thread Igor Stasenko
what you can try is to use lower color depth for the display. try switching to 1-bit mode.. which is black/white :) On 20 March 2012 16:02, Camillo Bruni camillobr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-20, at 14:49, Stefan Marr wrote: On 20 Mar 2012, at 14:03, Camillo Bruni wrote: On 2012-03-19,

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-20 Thread Stefan Marr
On 20 Mar 2012, at 22:52, Igor Stasenko wrote: what you can try is to use lower color depth for the display. try switching to 1-bit mode.. which is black/white :) It feels faster, yes, but still far from usable :-/ And it is kind of hard to find a compatible VM... Recent CogVMs on Mac (with

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-20 Thread Igor Stasenko
On 21 March 2012 00:31, Stefan Marr smallt...@stefan-marr.de wrote: On 20 Mar 2012, at 22:52, Igor Stasenko wrote: what you can try is to use lower color depth for the display. try switching to 1-bit mode.. which is black/white :) It feels faster, yes, but still far from usable :-/ And it

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-19 Thread Eliot Miranda
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Stefan Marr smallt...@stefan-marr.dewrote: Hi: When trying to debug a Pharo image with a VM that is heavily instrumented with assertions and runs without any compiler optimizations turned on, it is crawlingly slow. (The good old MVC based image is blazingly

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-19 Thread Marcus Denker
On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:09 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Stefan Marr smallt...@stefan-marr.de wrote: Hi: When trying to debug a Pharo image with a VM that is heavily instrumented with assertions and runs without any compiler optimizations turned on, it is

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-19 Thread Stefan Marr
Hi: On 19 Mar 2012, at 18:08, Eliot Miranda wrote: I noticed some absurd preference checking in standard images a while back, but turning this off made no noticeable different in optimized Cog. Look for uses of Preferences subPixelRenderFonts, e.g.

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-19 Thread Marcus Denker
I noticed some absurd preference checking in standard images a while back, but turning this off made no noticeable different in optimized Cog. Look for uses of Preferences subPixelRenderFonts, e.g. installStrikeFont:foregroundColor:backgroundColor:. There's a non-local return in the

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-19 Thread Marcus Denker
You used your own images for Pinocchio, or was Pinocchio just fast enough for the standard images? Pinnocio can't run the image... it's (just ;-)) a compiler from smalltalk to binary code... the .exe then boostraps an image, but there is no support to persist that (nor support for all

[Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-18 Thread Stefan Marr
Hi: When trying to debug a Pharo image with a VM that is heavily instrumented with assertions and runs without any compiler optimizations turned on, it is crawlingly slow. (The good old MVC based image is blazingly fast in comparison) Are there any tricks to reduce/disable all the possibly

Re: [Pharo-project] Any theme or settings that will speed up a Pharo 1.3 image?

2012-03-18 Thread Camillo Bruni
hi stefan, maybe you can try yo profile all threads and see where it actually spends all the time? WorldMenu / System / Start profiling all Processes best cami On 2012-03-18, at 12:57, Stefan Marr wrote: Hi: When trying to debug a Pharo image with a VM that is heavily instrumented with