It’s not about the thing that it uses 5% CPU. Apple does some magic with optimisation so they group threads in order to reduce power usage. And Pharo is not good at that. I’m not telling that Pharo is slow. Battery lasts longer with Safari compared to Chrome. Probably with Pharo it’s something similar.
On 28 Oct 2013, at 17:31, dimitris chloupis <[email protected]> wrote: > I would not worry too much over this. I have MenuMeters even before I was > introduced to smalltalk over a year ago and Pharo is steadily reported > consuming a 5% of my CPU which is average for an ObjC app on Macos 10.7 > > http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ > > So personally I am impressed with pharo speed so far. A big thumbs up from > me. Also take into account that even though MacOS is a great OS it comes with > its own fair share of bugs, especially the first year of its release so I > would not put too much attention into this if I was you. > > > On Monday, 28 October 2013, 18:08, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Now with Mavericks we can tell that Pharo is hungry for energy :) > > <Screenshot 2013-10-28 17.05.48.png> > > Cheers! > Uko > >
